What am I?

Very hard to resist the temptation to draw Playmobil character features on this! So, today's little quiz for you: what is this 'familiar' household object?

Planted up a friend's new veg garden this morning - she will soon be overwhelmed by rocket, lettuce, curly kale, broccoli, peas and carrots, lucky thing. As I'm still gardenless, it's wonderful to get stuck in and do some planting (especially since I'm not the one who'll have to water it every day until September...) And this afternoon was mostly scurrying around getting some photos scanned, cleaned up and edited for a little picture project I have on. Now I have to print all the photos out... I feel tomorrow could be a busy day.