Lucy

I am amazed and very pleasantly surprised.
I have a cement lion which is in our garden.  It is an oriental lion and its eyes are slanty.  We have put daisies around it, and they have grown and make it look like it belongs (that thing is really heavy.  Where it ends up is where it stays.)
I called the lion Aslan as per the Narnia books.  I have indicated before how much I love those books by C.S.Lewis.  I first came across them as I was in town in Townsville (I don’t remember what for), and I ran into (not literally) someone I knew.  He was rushing to a bookshop.  He was so getting off on the Narnia books and was there to get the next in the series.  He asked if I’d read them which I had not.  That soon changed.   I have now read them twice.  In all but The Horse and His Boy the characters enter Narnia from this world. The first book was written last. They were first published soon after the second world war.  Wikipedia calls them Childrens Classics.
I bought the whole series as a set.  It is a real regret to me that I loaned someone the first book and have never got it back.  I do not mind them having it, it is just the sets change covers, and to replace the book will mean the first book does not match! As someone we know says, it is a real first world problem.
Anyway, all that is for this.  Merril and I bought a much lighter statue of a lady, sowing seed, for our garden.  I asked Merril what she wanted to call the lady.  Merril had not read Narnia but gave her the name Lucy.  I was thrilled.  In Narnia, it was Lucy who was closest to Aslan.  To me, the name could not have been more perfect.
Lucy just stands in the garden and does not appear to do much.  That is our perception anyway.  She may move around a lot when we are not watching.  We cannot say as we are not there.
We have another cement statue in our garden.  It is a sleeping Mexican.  Again we never see him move, but he is not supposed to.   It was a present I bought for Merril before we were married.  I will never forget purchasing it, and putting it in the back of my car. Bang, bang, bang it went right throughout the trip.  I honestly marvelled that that thing arrived in one piece.
The thing about statues is one just places them and that is it.  The only value they have is ascetic.  That is enough for us.  Lucy was in the sun for a while today, and we were glad, as it would have helped warm her up on this cold morning. ​