I love GNOMES !!

Like many fashions, gnomes were introduced to Britain as a touch of aristocratic whimsy, only to be ruthlessly discarded by the upper echelons as soon as the rest of us caught on. In the middle of the 19th Century, Sir Charles Isham bought 21 impish German terracotta figures to adorn his rockery at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire.However, these German mythical statuary..still beloved throughout Germany..are now so looked down upon here in Great Britain that they are BANNED from the Chelsea Flower Show ! Gnomes, it seems are the horticultural equivalent of a polyester jumpsuit in lime green !

But,all is not lost and I may not be alone ! The gnome became 'cool' again when infant-terrible of the design world Philippe Starck introduced a range of outsize gnome tables for uber-chic Kartell..however this has been eclipsed by ASDA ! Yes ASDA ! Now, this year, and for the third year running, they are selling bright, cheeky, outsized gnomes.....