A retired art teacher has cut a hedge cut in the shape of a naked woman outside his house for almost 20 years.
Pensioner Keith Tyssen, 90, decided back in 2005 that he would indulge his love for sculpture by turning the hedge in front of his home into a naked woman.
Naming her Gloria, the divorced father-of-four says people stop and take photos of the 5ft tall reclining figure as they pass his house in Sheffield.
And despite drunk people climbing on her for a grope - he's even caught people pretending to have sex with the topiary - he has no plans to stop.
Pensioner Keith Tyssen, 90, decided back in 2005 that he would indulge his love for sculpture by turning the hedge in front of his home into a naked woman.
Naming her Gloria, the divorced father-of-four says people stop and take photos of the 5ft tall reclining figure as they pass his house in Sheffield.
And despite drunk people climbing on her for a grope - he's even caught people pretending to have sex with the topiary - he has no plans to stop.
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00:00My name is Keith Tyson. I got the idea of just growing a hedge at first, and I had these
00:10little bushes growing, you know, just a straight hedge, and I thought, well, that's a bit
00:14dull. I really ought to do something with it, and I just started to cut it a little
00:20bit nearer to this sort of shape. Yeah, I've had a sort of female figure there for, no,
00:27I think I've had it for about two and a half years, I should think. Yeah, and I kept refining
00:32it a bit, you know, I mean, a lot of it was not quite so descriptive. It's more descriptive
00:37now than it was perhaps five years ago. Well, I have had people kind of get a bit sort of
00:45tipsy and get excited by this figure. That's a bit of a worry, because they can sit on
00:51it or something, you know. I've had people try and move her about a bit, you know, and
00:57that really is worrying, because I'd really rather them not touch it at all. And, you
01:03know, when people are a little bit tipsy, they get a bit sort of tricky. So I do have
01:09to try and be, well, careful how I deal with them. Yeah, generally, people wandering by
01:16and finding it quite amusing, you know, which is exactly what I would like, you know, it's
01:21what I wanted it to do. I always have other little projects on the go, because I design
01:27and make things, you know. I've got a workshop where I produce work in metal, mainly metal,
01:35and I've been involved in some of the metal objects in Sheffield that we have on show,
01:40you know, some of the sort of street art, really, I suppose it is, and some of the sort
01:46of quite serious stuff down by the station, the big abstract figures that you walk by
01:53when you come out of the station, on the railway station. So I did those jointly with two other
02:02artists, who are my ex-students, actually. They were once students in what was my department
02:09in the Politechnic.