A wheelie silly idea

Delighted children were spotted having meaningful conversations with wheelie bins, chasing large potted plants and giggling at a rather noisy water-squirting road cone in the town centre, on Monday.
Featuring Sid and Nancy the Wheelie Bins, John the Road Cone and Annabel the plant pot, The Menagerie is an ever-increasing collection of radio controlled street furniture, whose members love to perform individually or as part of the herd. Normally dependable street furniture took on mischievous personalities, and followed and squirted water at surprised children at various times throughout the day.
One passer-by commented “… it was so lovely to see the families laughing and talking to plant pots and road cones that were answering back, and squirting water. The road cone had a car horn, and when someone went to see if it really was the cone making the noise it would squirt them, and then laugh! No one minded the water spray as it was such a lovely day.”
Part of the Corn Exchange’s family festival #GenerationZ, The Menagerie is the brainchild of Bureau of Silly Ideas, a cross-art form performance group that specialises in turning the mundane into the magical.