Well, it's not often that I do any on-the-spot reportage in this quiet little gardening blog, but today's posting comes to you from the Blue Mountains just west of Sydney, where medium-sized crowds gathered to attend the umpteenth annual Australia Day Garden Gnome Convention held every year at pretty little Glenbrook.
The constant light drizzle didn't deter all the dads, mums, prams, free-range children on the hoof, grannies, grandpas and assorted uncles and aunties, including Pammy and me.
Anyway, enough reportage, you get the picture... and besides, you're here to see the gnomes. Here we go, starting off with some of our favourites from the show.
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| How could I have missed this guy? But I did, walked straight past this handsome cricketer gnome, but good old Eagle Eyes Pammy didn't miss him, nestled in amongst a batch of non-sporting gnomes. |
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| Wow, what a nice, patient paint job on these harlequins! |
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| Looking like a mirror ball, Disco Gnome would have looked even better on a sunny day. |
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| Nothing like a good 'prop" to enhance a gnome. We saw some gnomes with the usual lawnmowers, guitars and rakes, but it's hard to beat a speedboat. |
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| These two had their own working railway, but quite frankly that is a bit over the top. Speedboat wins! |
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| Believe it or not, there is such a thing as good and bad taste when it comes to garden gnomes. This Dame Edna gnome is right on the dividing line between the two. However ... |
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| ... these disgraceful strumpet gnomes are on the other side of that dividing line between good and bad taste. Gnomes are a male-dominated profession as it is, and introducing female gnomes only if they take their clothes off says a lot about the state of sexism in Gnomeland. |
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| However, these minor lapses into bad taste hardly stood out from the crowds of countless little men in their red hats, with cherubic smiles on their faces. |
3 comments:
How fantastic! I have never heard of the gnome convention but think I will have to make a trip sometime soon. May inspire me to add some to my garden - not at all naff!
Lovely,its so nice to share your joys especially in your humorous comments. Loved your "free range" one on kids. Keep them up, we love your posts
What a great convention. Really need to see this once and for all. Very impressed with the diversity of the gnome population. Such a colourful community they live in.
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