What an enjoyable little blog we came across today! Check out Gnome of the Month Club for lots of fun travel and gardening info.
There’s even a section called “Gnome Daddy.” So when someone asks “Who’s yo’ daddy?” now we have an answer. Finally!
It seems these gnomes recently went to Fiji. Lucky bastards! GAH!
Okay enough internet stalking….back to my Bailey’s and binoculars.
Yours in creepiness,
Humps the Gnome
“The tale of how seven gnomes came to live at Wolverley’s Bodenham Arboretum has been made into a book to raise funds for Children in Need.
The BodenGnomes, written by Davy Turner, the BodenGnome Ranger, will be launched at the arboretum on Easter Monday – April 1 – and will be on sale throughout this year’s BodenGnome Gnome Hunt.
Mr Turner, 59, who works at the arboretum, said: “The book is an original history of where they came from, how they came to the arboretum and why they are called the BodenGnomes.
”It will be the third year the gnome hunt has been held at the arboretum in Wolverley. Visitors are given clues to the location of the woodland creatures, each of which carries a letter that, together, spell the name of a place.
Mr Turner added: “It just kicked off as a Children in Need thing but families loved them. About 250 people did the hunt last year.”
A percentage of sales of the book, which contains photographs taken around the arboretum, will be donated to Children in Need.
If it proves successful, Mr Turner plans to write other stories of the BodenGnomes’ adventures.
The hunt itself does not restart until the summer but some of the gnomes will be at the book launch.
Mr. Turner added: “There will be a couple of gnomes hiding that day. I’ll be there as the Gnome Ranger too.”
***We never thought we really needed to be “ranged,” but Turner sounds like an alright dude. RANGE AWAY!
Sincerely,
Leonardo The Gnome
The po-po charge you $250…even if you’re just stealing one of us for your mum.
Student stole gnome for mum
Last updated 07:34 22/03/2013
A Palmerston North student has been fined after stealing a garden gnome from a woman’s property on
his way home from a night out drinking.
Police found Christopher William Field, 18, in possession of the gnome, which he said he’d taken for his
mother.
“You keep to the footpath on the way home,” Judge Gregory Ross told him in the Palmerston North
District Court yesterday.
On a charge of theft, Field was fined $250.
– © Fairfax NZ News
Consider yourselves forewarned.
King Jerry of the Gnomes
Although we gnomes haven’t yet gotten crafty enough to have our OWN Etsy site, we still enjoy looking the pages of others. Today I simply searched for “gnome.”
There are 13,289 gnome items on Etsy!
OVERLOAD! I don’t even know whereto start shopping!
Take a lazy Saturday browse through the first couple thousand. What’s your favorite homemade or vintage gnome item for sale?
Going broke one swipe at a time,
DoorsOpenOnTheLeftAtClarkAndLake the Gnome
Happy Friday, gnome fans!
Before you get drunk and more stupid than you usually are, allow me to school you for just one brief moment. Today’s “Gnome Literature Series” focuses on two things that have nothing in common besides alliteration….toadstools and technology.
Exhibit A:
The Cliff’s Notes
Exhibit B:
The Cliff’s Notes
Okay, you’re less dumb now. Go drink yourself stupid.
Tootaloo,
The Quick Brown Fox