GoGo Hares

Introducing the GoGo hares – worthy heirs to the elephants and dragons that preceded them.

INTRODUCTION

The charity Break have established something a tradition involving large painted fibreglass animals – it started with elephants, then dragons, and now for a third installment we have hares. This year they are looking beyond Norwich – there is one in Fakenham, which I saw on Friday, there is one in Dereham which I saw through the windows of the ExCel bus travelling to and from the auction that my employers had in the fine city of Norwich yesterday and there are a load of them distributed around Norwich, some of which I captured on camera.

PICTURES OF THE HARES

The first five images relate to Lancaster, the Falenham Hare, whose acquaintance I made while banking my wages.

Egyptian Hare, Dereham — This Egyoptian style hare adorns the market place in Dereham

Hare, The Maids Head Hotel — This hare resides at The Maids Head Hotel where we had our auction.

Polka Dot Hare, The Forum — Cruella De Vil might like this hare, located outside the Forum.

Kafkaesque Hare, OS Library — This kafkaesque creation can be found just outside Norwich Millennium library

Hare, Norwich Library — While this one is inside the library

Hare, Tourist Information Office — This “Norfolk birds” hare is in the main Tourist information office in Norwich

Tiger Striped Hare, nr Top Shop — The late legendary Richard Whiteley would probably have described this as a hare-tigger (he specialised in this kind of pun).

Author: Thomas

I am a founder member and currently secretary of the West Norfolk Autism Group and am autistic myself. I am a very keen photographer and almost every blog post I produce will feature some of my own photographs. I am an avidly keen cricket fan and often post about that sport. View all posts by Thomas

14 thoughts on “GoGo Hares”

Alison says:

July 1, 2018 at 12:19 pm

Cool. 😂 @ hare trigger

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cindy knoke says:

July 2, 2018 at 5:20 am

So cool!

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nicolecorradoart says:

July 2, 2018 at 2:19 pm

Beautiful! They remind me of the moose statues in Toronto!

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1. Thomas says:
  
  July 2, 2018 at 5:42 pm
  
  Glad you liked them 🙂
  
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nicolecorradoart says:

July 2, 2018 at 2:19 pm

Reblogged this on Art by Nicole Corrado.

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1. Thomas says:
  
  July 2, 2018 at 5:41 pm
  
  Thank you for the reblog 🙂
  
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sillypointcricket says:

July 4, 2018 at 7:02 pm

Completely unrelated but knowing that you’re a Michael Burgess fan and have campaigned for him to be in the England team, he’s struck 56 from 23 balls I think in the T20 Blast tonight!

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1. Thomas says:
  
  July 4, 2018 at 8:09 pm
  
  An excellent effort, but England are so good in short-form cricket that there are few if any possible vacancies there just now.
  
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Anna says:

July 7, 2018 at 5:21 pm

Cool hares!

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1. Thomas says:
  
  July 7, 2018 at 5:31 pm
  
  Yes they are.
  
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GP Cox says:

July 29, 2018 at 6:53 pm

Pleased to meet you, Thomas. I used to raise rabbits, so naturally I was quite taken with your hares!

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1. Thomas says:
  
  July 29, 2018 at 7:01 pm
  
  Thank you 🙂 I believe there are now over 200 of these sculptures, mainly in Norwich, but with some in other locations such as Fakenham and Dereham.
  
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  1. GP Cox says:
    
    July 29, 2018 at 7:05 pm
    
    Glad to hear it. Quite creative.