What all the cool kids are getting for Christmas this year.

These are a new product from the Gnome Home range. I’m calling them Living Gnome Homes. The top of the stump is dished out and you put some potting mix and grass seed in, and within a few weeks you have a grassy roof.

Living Gnome Home kits will be available from the site soon, which will have the gnome home and instructions for making your own, or you can buy the completed stumps from the only outlet that has them - Home & Hozed in Masterton.

Stumps and a mounting service are available from Mathew at Pauatahanui Inlet Gardening Supplies.

Must be something the water.

There’s been a real… run on Gnomaloos lately.

In fact this

is the world’s largest single collection of Gnomaloos ever. See what you can get done when you start at 0700.

SANTA’S LITTLE SWEATSHOP

SITREP: as at X-Day minus 22 - 2210 hrs - workday ends.

Demand outstripped production last week, due to me being held up by circumstances beyond my control, and having to care for a beaten mog.

Packaging, dispatch & retail sales have been outsourced. And my father thought he’d retired. HA!

Production is now operating at 200% of normal. The entire house is now classified as a “workshop”, except by IRD who claim I do “other stuff” here as well. Yeah right.

Wellington locals are still able to purchase directly from me, and get both the best possible deal and personalised packaging. Kids are really impressed by seeing their name in print. Trust me.

If you live in central Wellington, feel free to stop by the latest outlet, Christophers for Crystals in Cuba Mall to pick up your Gnome Home. He only got a small order, so I want him cleaned out people. Go forth and commit retail!

As always, for those of you not picked by god to either be born here or live here*: you can still shop on line.

*Governments are temporary and are the tool of the devil - geography lasts a lot longer.

X-Day - 45 01:30 work day ends.