Umbrella dreams of past glory

I love how umbrellas, like shopping trolleys, seem to acquire a life of their own. If you ever get a chance read Lyall Watsons "The secret life of things" it's one of my fav books.

I've always had a tendency to anthropomorphise things. I defiantly would have been a Pagan, everything as a spirit even if only because we sometimes give it one!

Like shopping trolleys (and traffic cones my other fav urban pets) umbrellas appear in odd places, abandoned (don't you pity them as you pass by?), sometimes screaming out for help, flapping wildly against a chain link fence (of course you consider setting them free but you never do) or dead, crushed on the road by innumerable cars (perhaps a wreath & a note of condolence would be going too far?) or peering from a litter bin, disfigured beyond recognition, hiding their terrible appearance (as you pass in the rain you wonder if he can be rescued). Poor giant black bat of the rain!

They appear with the first drizzle, the multicoloured mushrooms & the more mysterious black jellyfish bobbing through the air until a malicious breeze forces all to see their delicate underside creating a giant flailing black flower or an even more disastrous current carry them off into the stratosphere. Secretly you giggle that this inanimate object (or are they) has got the better of their human companion.

Im in no doubt there are a few orbiting the planet having escaped the clutches of the earths atmosphere. If fish & frogs fall from the skies why can't equally unlikely things fall up & out? Perhaps their out there now, floating towards Sirius, our first ambassadors to an alien race!

Anyway enough of my mad ramblings, I spotted this poor legless fellow dreaming he could still be held aloft but alas I feel he doesn't have long for this world & the great cloakroom in the sky beckons for him :-(

Finally;

Here's the answer to yesterday's puzzling object, their available from M&S, it's called a Water spout & its made by Eden Project its used for recycling old bottles turning them into a handy watering can, would be great for third world!