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from Kay Easton contains these words:

When you'd asked what they thought, maybe .. but if you were to ask me,
for example, where you could buy insert some garden ornament in poor
taste, do you really want to hear my opinions of your abilities in
garden design, good taste, or whatever?

Kay! You've answered my query about clay lump: I'll mix a bit of cement
with it and make some garden gnomes. There's one pattern in particular I
remember admiring as I drove past each day: it stood on someone's
frontally unbounded lawn, which sloped down to the pavement.

The little fellow (no doubt about that) stood facing the road with his
raincoat spread wide......

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Rusty Hinge