The 17th century stone dogs have resurfaced. I am trying to raise funding for much-needed remedial work from the owners or wherever. The owners are Wiltshire County Council Highways Department. There are many pot-holes in the roads of Wiltshire, and there are many hundreds of miles of road in that county.
I may have picked the wrong time to ask them for money. Maybe I'll try again in about 50 years.
I like the dog. Ask the Council as the end of the tax year looms, when they are allocating end of year money that hasn't been spent and has to be or is lost. Then they might see it as a way of using some of it and cough up.
ReplyDeleteGood idea. I'll put it to the parish council.
DeleteA very good advice! At the end of the year e.g. my Bundesbehörde was also looking for worthy projects, so there might be a chance to rescue these beautiful dogs.
DeleteI have already rescued them Britta. They just need care and attention.
DeleteOh for such a pair of dogs at Magnon Manor!
ReplyDeleteI could carve you copies if you free up some of your obscene amounts of disposable income.
DeleteWhere were they? You said they had resurfaced. It would be good if you could find the funding to do the work. I like it.
ReplyDeleteI mean they resurfaced in my life. They haven't moved for 300 years.
DeleteI get it now. They are pretty big to be misplaced.
DeleteThat dog is smiling
ReplyDeleteYears ago, H. I. remodelled his balls in lime mortar. That would explain it.
DeleteI'm interested in this renovation, but I have no idea how you renovate stone. And is it an outlandish amount of money to do so?
ReplyDeletePretty outlandish. This dog has been in small pieces 2 times already.
DeleteLove him but you need a substantial period house to have a pair I think ( that’s dogs not testicles !!! ) XXXX
ReplyDeleteThe house burned down. Testicles burnt out.
DeleteI know why I am back.
DeleteI am glad you are back.
DeleteExquisite. What I wouldn't give for the pair...
ReplyDelete30 years ago it would have had to be £25,000. I have saved them from dealers too. That's why I am so poor.
DeleteWhat you need is a rich benefactor/s - why not try advertising. I would have thought there were plenty in your area.
ReplyDeleteThere is Weave.
DeleteHow about giving Crowd Funding a try?
ReplyDeleteThe P.C. is wealthy enough for it not to be needed.
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ReplyDeleteFuck Off! Wiltshire Council is cash strapped not paying for pot holes in the roads but having to pay for police protecting us against Russian chemical warfare. I can't afford another rise in council tax from a Council in north Wiltshire which uses Salisbury as a cash cow. And there was another cordoned off area in the city today. Yet not a word from our glorious government. We are cannon fodder in this whilst the PM and her hangers on compete to set the UK afloat from the continent we are historically aligned to. Anyone else noticed the empty shelves in Tesco and M&S?
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be under a little stress over there, Elegance.
DeleteCrush all stone statues and fill the potholes in the roads (signed Ghengis Khan)
ReplyDeleteAlso Taliban and ISIS policy.
DeleteI love the dog collar. I suppose that that signified the dog was a pet?
ReplyDeleteThey were called 'Talbots' and the collar signified they were owned. They were predominantly hunting dogs.
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