Are you a gnome lover or hater?

Love traditional gnomes (not plastic ones) we also have a fairy garden with a fairy door in our old apple tree.

I quite like gnomes that are subtle and a wee bit different, i.e. not sitting with a fishing rod on a red mushroom with white spots.

I liked the idea of the fairy door. Off to look on Amazon for some for our apple trees and the plum tree. Subtle ones.

On a Ramblers' holiday in Austria we used to stagger back to our hotel past a garden which was a veritable gnome home- all beautifully hand carved out of wood - dozens of them, all different. I wanted to take one home,but they were on the large side and my luggage wouldn't have coped. I have to make do with a rather tired owl who could do with a coat of paint.

Did anyone else see these ghastly gnomes in ASDA earlier this year?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3495553/Off-heads-Asda-sells-bizarre-gnomes-Queen-beloved-corgis-30-pop-mark-monarch-s-90th-birthday.html

Gno gnomes, but when my elderly neighbour from across the road died, her son asked me if I wanted anything from the house when they were clearing it out. So I carried across a squirrel garden ornament and it is tucked in between the containers by my front door. It's a nice reminder of her.

We carry palm sized stones or pebbles back from holidays both here and abroad, and husband inks where they are from and the year on one side, and they're dotted around the garden but with the writing side down. I quite like that he does that, but it seems like odd behaviour having written it down.

Didn't pilgrims used to carry shells around with them?

I had a big, green ceramic frog that sat at my front door. One day a relative made a big deal of saying that he hated frogs and thought they were unlucky . A few weeks later the window cleaner was chatting to my grandson, (who at the age of 4, wanted to be a window cleaner when he "growed up") and he said "oh what's happened to mister froggy?" My grandson was upset that we hadn't noticed it was gone. I know this sounds strange but I can't help but wonder if the relatives comments and the disappearance are somehow connected.

I wonder if the frog was some kind of guardian "angel" as nothing seems to be going right anymore. I know that this probably makes me sound like a looney tune

No don't really like them to be honest but if a grandie had given me one I couldn't decapitate it it would have to have a place thankfully they are no more interested in them than I am haha