Old shovel...

Look what I found right at the back of the shed as I was cleaning it out yesterday. It's one of those old shovels that road diggers used to use, still do for all I know. It must have been there when I bought the house because I don't recognise it as something I brought with me.

Of course it's much too heavy to easily use, it really does weigh a ton, and I was about to at long last throw it away, after years of shuffling it around inside the shed, when I had an idea.

This is my idea. I've turned the old shovel into a garden ornament by painting the shaft shabbily and sticking a resin robin I bought for a couple of quid at a discount store. I like whimsy and this, I like to think, is as whimsical as you like - or rather I like, and I really do. So much so that I may start looking around for some more old tools to whimsify.