Are you a gnome lover or hater?

I love gnomes and have even visited the gnome reserve in Devon twice, but I don't have them in my garden.

I'm not a great lover of garden ornaments - next door has the most ghastly set, including the mushroom, but the ugliest creature of all time who used to sit on it got broken years ago, thank goodness! For all that, I love water features - local garden centre has a huge one which I'd love, but can't afford (apart from the dreadful guilt I'd suffer)! As for gnomes - as a fantasy game player actually love the real thing (there are two gnome brothers in our current RPG Scenario who have moved to online World of Warcraft game team!) So defend to the death anyone who wants to give a home or at least garden squatting rights to one of these friendly if grouchy characters!

Not a gnome lover but when we moved in we found an eroding away gnome sized penguin in the garden - he is still here.

Are you a Whovian Riverbank?
On the the gnome point, I am not a fan for my garden, but do enjoy seeing them in other people's. Some of them are quite funny.

No Gnomes but I do have an Indian Elephant at the bottom of my garden next to an arbour, and on the decking there are two ornamental Buddhas. All three are grey coloured so they blend in.

On one wall I have a lizard brought back from a holiday in Tenerife and at Halloween we have a dragon which sits in our front doorway, plus two white and grey snails which sit on some pebbles at the side of my house.

I also have an ornamental thing which plugs in to the mains and water pours out of one jug into another when I can be bothered with it.

How about a little section of the garden, probably not visible from the house, where your gnome could live unobtrusively? In ours it would be up near the shed, then no one would be offended or upset by his demise

I am happy to give a home to homeless gnomes - I think- as long as I don't get too many. I may introduce a quota!

love gnomes, will be getting some when garden is sorted.

The poor little fellas are having a hard time lately, since all this British Gnome Stores trouble.

I have only one. He's not a gnome really, he's a leprechaun. Here he is. His name is Charlie ( no prizes for guessing why!!). He could do with a coat of paint.

Chuckling. Love it. One moment the passions of Brexit. The next Gnomes! A friend of mine has about 50, all in different sizes, indoors! Another friend had several in the garden. OH said to get rid of or he'd take a spade to them. She left them there. He was true to his word. Came home, all beheaded! They're now divorced. Not because of the Gnomes tho! Although.........

DDs bought me a gnome (I already had a couple of little ones that one of the DDs wanted when a toddler) which I see as a bit of whimsy. But for my birthday DDs bought me pottery wellies from M&S (2 right ones!!). They are on the compost heap at the moment. What on earth do I do with them? There is a drainage hole in the bottom of them. DH thought they were to wear.

My BIL has scattered the garden with meerkats. They are quite amusing but my poor sister despairs of the meerkat birthday cards that turn up for him each year!

I swear I haven't made it up, oldgoat. The decals are on order. When the van is finished I'll post a photo.

I forgot to say that we have a small TRex peeping out from the bushes in the garden.

We do not have gnomes, but we do have Homer Simpson quaffing a tankard of Duff beer.

I'm not keen on gnomes but I do have Patsy Pig on my garden wall.
She was given to me by one of my neighbours because I was always lying out in the sun. It's a pig wearing a bikini, and she gets quite a lot of admiring comments.

vampirequeen. Looking forward to seeing your gnome-mobile. Did you do the conversion yourselves? I believe you only need side windows to have a van reclassified as a campervan, so you can qualify for cheaper insurance.

Years and years ago, it was on the news that a garden gnome had been stolen, and it was now sending the owner postcards from all over the world and sometimes a photo of it would arrive, on the beach, at a cafe, on a plane etc.What a great life that gnome had....and it never went home again!

Many years ago now a neighbour told us of a gnome disappearing act that had taken place where she lived , somewhere in the Luton area I think. It had gone on for months with no-one ever being caught. One morning ages afterwards the gnomes were discovered very early in the morning queuing at several bus stops in orderly fashion at several bus stops in the town.

Not into Gnomes,but must admit I have a thin for fairies and have several dotted around.

When we moved into our home nearly 20 years ago, we inherited a couple of gnomes in the garden.
Call me a sentimental old fool, but even though I am not a big fan of the 'old boys', I could not bear to get rid of them. My reasoning was that they were living here before us, so this was their home too. They are still with us and I have grown quite fond of them.

I have fairies in my garden, along with Minions who do the work around the fairy village or mend the fairy bridge. They are coming to take me away.

I absolutely love it when people make little wooden 'Fairy' sized doors, and attach them to the base of a tree trunk.
I guess that it is because, despite my age, there is still a little Girl deep inside who desperately wanted to find a real live Fairy

We have a gnome which was left on our doorstep in 1982. He has travelled around with us since then and regularly gets a new coat of paint to fit in with the local dress. In the nineties he even made it to the Middle East and was painted accordingly. These days it is Dorset dress or what DH thinks Dorset people should dress in. I haven't seen many people in red hats though. He has been very popular with GDS and keeps an eye on the house along with the green man who wards off bad things. Be careful what you throw away they might get revenge.