Pink elephant’s farewell visit
Neighbours of this Memorial Avenue property could be forgiven for thinking they were seeing a pink elephant this week. They were. But the elephant is no stranger to the occupants, Mr and Mrs Harry Mitchell; it could almost be called a family pet.
About seven months ago their eldest son, John, returned from a holiday to find fluorescent pink elephant footprints along his driveway. So, when his brother, David, moved from Auckland to Christchurch, John decided to take the joke a step further, and
made the elephant. The rest of David’s new house had been decorated with streamers and the like, and the elephant, which measures about 1.5 m by 2m, was placed in the middle of the front lawn. Since then it has moved
quite frequently to and from the lawns of relatives and friends. Mr and Mrs Mitchell wil soon move bouse, which is why the friendly elephant took this last chance to pay them a visit in their present home.
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