Back in the depths of last winter Jenny began carving a replica of a huge neo-Hittite Chimaera or Sphinx, the original of which we had seen in the National Museum of Turkey in Ankara last summer. The block of stone with which she was working weighed 64 kilos when she started but as she chipped away it was reduced to 49 kilos. Last weekend Jenny entered her finished stone carving in the "sculpture" section of our Village Gardening Club's Summer Show and she was delighted to be awarded second prize, being beaten only by a ceramic peacock. We have now built the stone carving into a wall in our garden where we can enjoy looking at it every time we go to that end of the garden.
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