Fangirl Three wrote:

I thought we agreed that BITG would be relocated to the end of Butters' bed

Nightjar wrote:

Yeah, instead of the 110' flatscreen telly that rises out of the foot of the bed like in a Premier League sh*tball player's 'boudoir'.

I bet the Dalai 's spinning in his grave.

Butterfield wrote:

I might have some bad news about Buddha in the Garden. More news to follow soon.

I can now confirm that Buddha in the Garden is officially classed as missing.

When I say "missing", it might actually have been thrown onto a skip last year without my knowledge when I wasn't there. I only realised it was missing last week when having a post-winter/post-storm study of the garden, and upon questioning the official owner they responded with words to the effect of "I have no idea where it is; it might have gone on the skip - well, no one liked it and it was cracked".

Well, any bad karma from that won't be on your head, but on anyone's who did the deed.

Fangirl Three wrote:

Well, any bad karma from that won't be on your head, but on anyone's who did the deed.

It's hardly as if Buddha in the Garden was looked after very well in the first place though, eh, eh?

I hasten to add that despite me not exactly being of the Buddhism religion I try and treat any religious symbols with relative respect, hence the reason a broken Buddha left behind by the house's previous owner that I and the house's new owner had always thought was ugly hadn't been chucked away when one's eyes were first set on it in 2011. I was the one who campaigned to save it 11 years ago.

But I was also the one who moved it to the bottom of the garden and faced it away from the house.

But I certainly wasn't the one who allegedly chucked it onto a skip.

So I like to think any aforementioned bad karma certainly wouldn't be upon me.

Still, we have a missing Buddha that should be in the Garden - and it's a problem.

Also Butters, you freed it from bindweed on one occasion

Oh that's right, I did!

Buddha in the Woods - next to an RAF base near Wolverhampton.

But wasn't the original Buddha in the Garden one of those quite creepy leery grin Buddhas?



Buddha in the Woods one is one of those placid, serene, female Buddhas.


I seem to recall that that leery grin original Buddha in the Garden had was part of the reason it caused Butterpops some disturbance and consternation.

I thought the BITG was made of black plastic?

I never said it wasn't.

You're both right. Buddha in the Garden is/was black - not sure of the material but definitely chippable and hollow with a hole in its b*ttom - and is/was one of the fat, creepy ones.

You may have a Buddha in your garden, but do you have an effigy of a little girl hanging in it?

He doesn't even have a Buddha in the Garden anymore.

Quite right too. Nor should he. This years must have garden accessory is an effigy of a small unhappy girl who's hanged herself. He's no doubt in the process of getting one of those set up.

Nightjar wrote:

He doesn't even have a Buddha in the Garden anymore.

Still missing.

Lurking.

Leering.