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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:43 pm:   

Our village has had a "Wacky Scarecrow Walk" today as part of its entry for the Britain in Bloom contest. I thought you folks might like to see some of the scarecrows created by local businesses and groups.

Scarecrows freak me out a little (I'm reminded of a Mark Morris short story about a motorist being chased by a malevolent scarecrow, but I can't recall the name of it). Anyway, see what you think of these:

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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:45 pm:   

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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:46 pm:   

scarecrow

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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:47 pm:   

scarecrow

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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:49 pm:   

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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:50 pm:   

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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:51 pm:   

scarecrow

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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:52 pm:   

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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 12:14 am:   

Excellent, Caroline! 'Specially "overweight and worn out Spiderman"!
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 02:24 pm:   

Yes, he does look a bit knackered, doesn't he!

My particular favourite is the drunk cowboy with an arrow through his head who was laid out in a shop doorway.

I forgot to mention, last year - which was the first time they ran the event - they made the mistake of leaving the scarecrows out overnight on the Saturday. When I drove out of the village on the Sunday it looked like there'd been a scarecrow massacre. There were several of them lying on a grass verge, heads and limbs ripped off.

It looked pretty funny really, but wasn't of course. Some vandals had done that on the Saturday night. One of the organisers was telling me yesterday that some schoolkids who'd made one of the scarecrows that year were most upset that their creation had been trashed like that.

But it was a very odd sight indeed to see this "scarecrow massacre". This year, they were removing them in the evening so it didn't happen again.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 10:42 am:   

Caroline those pictures are absolutely splendid! "Have you tasted our paninis?" is pure horror, and I love the scarecrow spider in the last one.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 01:46 pm:   

Thanks, John. I think there are some very strange people in this little village of mine. Last year, one of the scarecrows was locked by its ankles in the village stocks, and another was hanging by a noose from a road sign. And that was before the vandals did their scarecrow massacre. This year, it was a bit more child friendly!

Last year's Wacky Scarecrow Walk gave me a story idea which I almost turned into a story to submit to Cern Zoo! (I chickened out at the last minute though - it wouldn't have been good enough)
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 02:05 pm:   

Caroline - I went to your town's website and saw those pictures! Unsettlingly Wicker Man I thought!
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Jonathan (Jonathan)
Username: Jonathan

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 02:51 pm:   

We have a similar thing in Oxfordshire. Can be very strange to come across them.
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 09:46 pm:   

I imagine they scare the **** out of anyone who encounters them after dark. Very Campbellian indeed.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 06:04 pm:   

"Can be very strange to come across them."

There's a joke here about risking a really nasty grass cut but I've got better taste than that.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 04:51 pm:   

Weber - how do you manage to bring even my pretty scarecrow pics thread down to the level of the gutter? Grass cuts, I ask you!
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 06:01 pm:   

I did not bring the level of discussion down. I did not tell the joke.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 08:45 pm:   

Hmmmm. Point taken. Must be my filthy mind then.

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