Nudes for the suburbs

January is the month for garden centres.
It is very strange to me that sales of nude and semi-nude female statues are the centrepiece of many of them, such as this one at Trentham.
What is it all about?

Although they pretend a guise of being quasi-classical atworks, they are in reality, plainly ... semi-naked ladies, meant for the pleasure of the suburban gardener.

Phew...a scorcher

Another scorcher today, at 25 Celsius ... and what do the English do when it's unexpectedly hot? Head for a garden centre - like this one, the Byrkley Park Centre near Shobnall.

And, it must be hot: you rarely see someone holding up their umbrella to guard them from the ... sun!

Link: Byrkley Garden Centre