Does anyone like.....REALLY like......

[Ice.Maiden]

garden gnomes?
I'm sorry - but I think they're gross! I laugh my head off when i hear of one being abducted, and sending post cards from far off places!

[Aprilis]

I can see the humour of them Icey, but I don't like them at all. They are tacky, gaudy, ugly and cheap looking.

I was dishing out pressies to my family that I'd bought on holiday once and I gave one to my aunt as a joke so she'd feel she'd have to hide her disappointment. The idea was to make her squirm a little and then produce her real present. Well I was gobsmacked when she opened it and was delighted with it!

There's no accounting for taste huh?

[Goodsoulette]

Bill Oddie does!

[Aprilis]

Yes GS, Oddie by name, Oddie by nature.

I do like the eccentric old duffer though.

[Ice.Maiden]

LOL both - thanks for making me smile at this time of the morning!

Speaking of gnome presents, I once did the same and gave one to my best friend as a joke. She hates them as much as I do, but kept the hideous object in her living room. She swore its eyes used to follow her round the room, and it quite un-nerved her!
P.S. I think Bill Oddie's weird as well.

[Aprilis]

Why on earth did she keep it then Icey if she hated them so much? And to put it in her living room where she had to look at it all the time too? I'm afraid I would have had to 'accidently' drop it on the footpath on the way up the garden. Hahaha!

[Goodsoulette]

When I was a teenager my dad bought a gnome and late at night put it in the garden. My mum didnt know it was him and was dumbfounded that someone would just come and put one there. He would move it around too night by night. She never any of the wiser, and it perplexed heras to who or why they were doing it, and then someone stole it!

[Aprilis]

That's really funny GS! Mind you, I reckon having had it half-inched, she got a good result in the end, LOL!

[Ice.Maiden]

LOL goodsoulette - i would've been glad to see the back of it as well - lol!

This happened when I was in my teens Aprilis. Me and my best friend wewre always pulling pranks on each other , and having dares. each dare, or jokey present, came with conditions! For example, I was given a putrid plastic necklace, and I "had" to wear it in public on three consecutive outings. I did, and won the bet that i wouldn't! This gnome was given on the understanding that it took pride of place in my friend's flat, and there it stayed from the Christmas it was given, to the arranged Easter when she could get rid of it. When the time came, she'd grown attached to it in a strange way, and couldn't bear to throw it out, so he was moved to an old meter cupboard where no one had to look at him again!!

[Aprilis]

Well if you ever offer me a gift Icey, I hope you won't mind if I politely decline!

[Ice.Maiden]

Lol - the funny ones are the best. I still do it now. Amongst my husband's last Christmas presents was a wind up spider. it tickled me to wind it up and watch this furry black thing with legs somersault across the floor at speed!!!

[jno]

some of them are religious

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/143743 9.stm

[Ice.Maiden]

Splutter with laughter!!!!!

[harryshaw]

ice if it was up north
i know the guy they nicked it from

he doesnt live far from me

its hilarious xxxxxxxxxxxx

[whiffey]

I have a life-sized sheep and piglet in my garden, and a gnome I am looking after on behalf of friends. Foxes have taken off one of the piglet's ears and pigeons generally crap on them, but they survive.