Flamingo fun.

(Flamingo is another one of those words that looks really wrong if you write it enough.)

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I grew up visiting my grandfolks
who had one of those fabulous cement flamingo garden statues

in their front garden,

nestled amongst the cement garden gnomes, rose bushes and prickly pears.

(This was Tasmania in the 1970s. Prickly pears were in gardens,

at least in Tasmania, back then.)

I loved it

and have always harboured a secret "want" to have one in my own garden ever since

Of course, nowadays, you can't easily (at all?) get a good cement flamingo.

Hard to even find a photo of those original ones anywhere on the web.
I couldn't find a single one that was my memory of my grandfolk's garden.

Surprise, surprise.

There is a plethora of plastic ones and even aluminium ones

but not those solid cement ones that they made in the 50s.

Yeah, the plastic ones are cute

but they are, well, plastic.

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When travelling overseas in 2001,

we saw the gorgeous creatures in real life in Spain.

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I wont turn around and tell you that I have 174 flamingo ornaments

or anything like that.

Though having searched the web for flamingos this morning,

the words "tacky" and "flamingo ornament" seem to go well together.

I do, however, have a couple hanging around my sewing space.

So, when the talented Vic offered to draw me something,

I thought a flamingo would be appropriate.

Vic has many talents.

The two most notable ones are her op shopping karma

and the other is her creativity.

Isn't it gorgeous?

And so me.

Thanks, Vic.

I love it.