S is for Spring is Sprung!

Even as I was Blogging the Gnomes Peter Evans kindly sent me the other day these shots of some of my own Gnomes were sitting in Picasa after I'd shot them sorting some other stuff back at the start of Feb' and with spring in the air I know some people will be renewing their Gnome homes or villages, and these were aimed at exactly that market.

Thick-walled blow-moulds which I believe are actually rotary-mouldings, and quite common when I was a kid, being sold in garden centres, hardware stores, beach-side kiosks and general newsagents/corner stores as novelties there are lots still around, and I have the set of musicians, along with a miner holding a lamp (making a nice busking scene) and the gardener (below); other figures have tools (the rest of the gardeners and miners) and there are more I think . . . fishermen, playing leapfrog, sitting round a camp-fire set, but I may be getting confused with Kinder or Santa's or something?

Pleased to get this in one piece, it's often missing bits being quite brittle 'kit' styrene, the spade-handle, the barrow-handles or the wheel are prone to damage or - if you're lucky - poorly-glued, amateur mends!