Suggestions for the Christmas present from hell as far as I’m concerned

Firstly,
I hope everybody had a lovely day yesterday. Christmas for many reasons is not my “ cup of tea” but each to their own.
Carrying on in that vein I have been given to my mind a ghastly present from someone who does not know me very well……obviously!
I have been doing them a big favour so the gift was very kindly meant but I have no idea what on earth I am going to do with it other than take a hammer to it, break it up and stick it in my wood burning stove!
I live in the countryside and the above would look totally ridiculous in my garden and having a roof on it I suppose you then have to water the plants which also will be getting b all sunlight due to the roof, just superb.
I do not, funnily enough have a group of gnomes to huddle round it to obscure the majority of the abomination so looking for useful, rude or otherwise suggestions.
No doubt there will be some folk who like these garden ornaments and I do not mean to offend, everybody is different. If only the person had given me a bottle of plonk, way cheaper and would have been gratefully received.
Maybe others can share with us their presents from hell!

 

Are they likely to ever see it in your garden if you did keep it? If not then you could just get rid of it.

Initial thoughts would be to turn it into a bird feeder with a tray over the hole. It would help keep the food dry and at least do something useful.

You could also wait till the next storm and pretend a tree crushed it.

 

I guess it's intended to be a wishing well? It's a very odd-looking one.

If you could find/make a shallow tray to fit it, you could turn it into a bird bath?

 

Fill it with water, toss a coin in it and wish it to go away .

 

If you really don't want it (!), and there's no way they will know that you've got rid of it, I'd suggest putting on Freecycle or similar. If you're not on social media, maybe donate it to a charity shop. I have a feeling it would be snapped up.

As for my idea of a present from hell, ironically one of my worst ones would be a bottle of wine as I don't drink alcohol .
A friend gave me a National Garden gift voucher. Perfect !

 

But at least a bottle of wine can be easily disposed of. If you've got no-one else to give it to, pour it down the sink and the gifter will be none the wiser on seeing the empty bottle.

 

I agree with Escarpment.Going by the winding handle it is a wishing well. Probably an unwanted Christmas present from last year.

 

You're half way to a rabbit hutch/pre- composting facility. Add back and wiremesh side (s)/front, floor and cut a rabbit sized door to a seperate run in the base. Add ramp /staircase to link.
Never look a gift (horse !) etc..... Useful project for the New Year !!

 

No problem here @Escarpment , my OH does drink (not to excess I hasten to add), so he does well out of it .
Good point about the winding handle, I hadn't spotted that on first viewing.

 

Many years ago one of my inlaws bought me a day at some sort of beauty parlour type of a place.

I don’t own make up, I stopped wearing it when I was about 21 or 22, I cut my nails down to where they don’t scrape on things, just a little off looking as though I bite them, and am a stranger to the hairdresser.

I took it as a rebuke to my “unfeminine” appearance. As such, I never used it.

 

Toss a coin in a wish it would go away.

 

Remove the roof (stick the wood parts in the wood burning stove), plant it up with some flowering spilling-over plants, or a little herb patch with some nice sages?

 

I was going to suggest what @micearguers said. I’d take that top off and plant it up with some nice flowers/veg or whatever you fancy. The top could, at a pinch, be recycled for the top of a feeding table as a roof ( you’d have to cut it down though ) to keep food dry. Mind you, on second looking at the picture I notice the top is flat. How odd. You’d have to jiggle that about abit to make a roof.

 

What a perfect present!

Cut an entrance to the bottom box to convert it into a hedgehog house. A layer of something on top, and then a bug hotel de luxe until the roof. (Chicken wire makes useful container areas for the various materials and slows down blackbirds from taking things apart. )

If the roof is already waterproof, a chicken wire grid, root membrane, sand and compost should be a good starting point for a Sedum/ Semprevivum roof.

Have fun!

 

This morning I've been out rounding up all the plastic pots that blew around the garden yesterday. So pot storage?