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EBJ
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Oct 2021 18 15:38

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Yes the garden type, my late mum had a heavy concrete one in the garden called "Percy" and she asked me to repaint it as it was looking awful, well with one thing and another i never got around to it and after she died last month and clearing the flat out old Percy was still standing there in her small garden looking as bad as ever.
I felt bad that i never got around to doing it for her so brought the paint and got to work on old Percy and he has not turned out to bad and now sits in my garden in all his splendour and and will give me a reminder of my dear old mum. -Like.png-

Percy before a paint up

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Cleaned and undercoated

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Finished Percy

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I hope mum is looking down on him in approval. -Success.png-


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Oct 2021 18 16:03

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Percy is looking really good EBJ, well done -Like.png-
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Oct 2021 18 17:01

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Well done Jack. He looks fresh as a daisy. And he has a Gnome to go to! -Big grin.png-
We used to have one in our band, he kept the beat going. He was a Metro gnome!
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Oct 2021 18 17:09

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Sorry for your loss EBJ, he looks great, I'm sure your mum would love him 👍👍👍
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Oct 2021 18 17:28

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Look great, your mam would have been proud.
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Oct 2021 18 17:32

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Rockstar wrote: 18th Oct 2021 at 5:01pm
We used to have one in our band, he kept the beat going. He was a Metro gnome!
That just jogged a memory -Big grin.png-

The band I was in years ago needed a dep drummer as our drummer was going on holiday for a few weeks. A friend of a friend suggested someone who was really good as it turned out, he was a little vertically challenged at less than 5 feet tall and as he drove an Austin Metro our singer nicknamed him Metro-Gnome, he didn’t mind the nickname btw -Happy.png-
Yes mums looking down definitely approving EBJ -Like.png-
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Oct 2021 18 18:17

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Good as new, looks amazing -Thumb_up-
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Oct 2021 18 21:07

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Looks good m8 -Like.png-

Looks just like you hehehehe

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