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By davidc

W-I-D-E on Wednesday: (Sort of) Solid

This ancient garden roller "came free with the house" when we bought it almost 40 years ago. As it's hollow it may not quite fit Bobsblips's Widwed challenge of "Solid", but it's the nearest I could get to the challenge and is certainly pretty hefty and is of very solid construction. Its handle is broken and it's very hard to move, so we just keep it as a Garden "ornament". We assume that it dates from the days when the lawn was a tennis court: we've been told that  the lawn was used as such at least 2 owners ago. I took it with my fisheye lens to make it look even wider than usual, hence the distortion.

Now:
Thanks so much to everyone who tagged blips for Silly Saturday last weekend! Admirer would have had a good laugh and my Editor and I had some really good chuckles looking through them and (as usual) struggled to decide to whom we should give Hearts and HMs. Anyway, here’s our choices:
 
Hearts (in no particular order):
KangaZu – for spotting a really silly, cheeky gargoyle at Bamburgh Castle
RMeinz – for the zany bicycle characters
BikerBear – for her egg yolks with weird faces
Honeycombebeach – Ooh La La! Naked Gardeners Day
MumOf4Wildings – for a magnificent set of costumed children: May the Fourth be with you!
 
Honorary Mentions:
Madwill – for his tank & soldiers: I hope our real soldiers had better eyesight than these appear to have
Biddy – who after a long wait captured an impressive photo of a bottoms-up Coal Tit: it could be saying, “Does my bum look big in this?”
OutdoorEd – for an alien-looking creation recently landed
Incredibish – for a clever take on “May the fourth (of gravity) be with you”
Jeanneb53 – for her friends in magnificently silly Steam Punk attire
 
The next hosted Silly Saturday will be on 1st June: volunteer hosts are welcome for any month, just let me know which month you’d like to do (it's only held on the first Saturday of the month). It’s really fun!

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