Two sticks, a torn kurta, the headrest off the old lounger…
A broken plastic flower pot, some rope, some GI wire…
Tie here, twist there, pad out, prop up, and voila! We have something that looks like a 1920s Paris model…
She looks like a Celeste, though she’s really a scarepig.
Oh please Celeste, scare away the pigs and the birds and the rats and the squirrels and the elephants from my precious no-till paddy!
The Long View 
That many animals to scare away! A rather tall order for such a willowy Celeste. You need a well padded Kuppamma with a stick in hand.
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🤣🤣 You’re so right Jaya! I was aiming at a Kuppamma, but Celeste somehow materialised 😃
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Sigh, isn’t it like that always? Willowy Celestes materialise, don’t do much but get written about while the Kuppammas wait patiently for some acknowledgement…and keep busy working.
😉😉
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Cheer up, Jaya! Willowy Celeste is being fattened up. Who knows, she may metamorphose into Kuppamma.
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Yayyy! Trust Kuppamma to keep all the animals off your paddy
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gorgeous; I love the way you prop up the ordinary, the down-at-heel, this clever metamorphosis; but will it deceive ? 🙂
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Probably not! Unless the very alienness works to scare away the critters. Today I’m going to pad her up a bit.
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might be an idea 🙂
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Women that are thin are attractive to me. Ah… Celeste!
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She may be French and foreign to Indian pigs and rats but to me she looks too inviting! You are so fond of animals … your fattened up Celeste will end up looking like a fairy Godmother 😀
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Yes. My daughters are telling me the little wild pigs are probably brought up on fairy tales of a kind lady who grows a little patch of golden paddy just for them. I’m almost sold!
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Change her Kurta to white, put her on a motorized cable and keep her moving from end to end. Forget animals, humans will also be kept at bay. She has no legs. You can add sounds of anklets for dramatic effect.
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Excellent idea, Sadagopan – if one had an acre or at least a whole field of some crop. My mother in law had a saying in Tamil – onne-onnu karuvepillai kannu. This is like that.
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Will she really scare away elephants, your lovely Celeste? They are such big animals, and she is so thin and looks rather fragile, like a French mannequin in some new outfit by Christian Dior.
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Elephants are becoming rare in our area, Olivia, because the forest authorities have put up a stretch of solar fence. But we can give Celeste the credit for it 😃
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Celeste will be happy to get some credit.
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