Zoom In on a Gnome and Garden Curios

It is Wednesday again so I am joining in with Helena and her weekly ZIZO in week 36. Since I have been doing Rinda's PhotoScavenger Hunt I have been looking out for all sorts of items everywhere, gnomes being no exception. I soon spotted a gnome in my friend's garden. I guess it has always been there but I have never taken a lot of notice before! She is the second friend to have a gnome quietly living in her garden previously unnoticed by me!
Her gnome and friends made an ideal ZIZO.
There is not much to see at a glance, just a corner of her lovely garden.

Then I looked a bit closer.

Then closer still.

I gave her the next one!

Lots of curios which I am sure all tell a story and then one of many small visitors!

Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt final photos

I have finally found all the photos for the scavenger hunt set by Rinda. It has been great fun and I am already looking forward to next year's. These are the final ones.

No.1 A Sign Welcoming you to your home town or village.

I have chosen a village near too us which like a lot of the villages locally had new stone signs from local stone made for the millennium.

Yes I know. It looks rather like a tombstone!

No. 2 A Garden Gnome

I visited a local garden centre in search of a garden gnome. I was just giving up hope when I spotted these little chaps hiding under a table!

Judging by the reduction in price nobody was too keen on Woodland Wilf!

I thought that was it until whilst drinking a coffee I peered out into my friend's garden to spy these two jolly little chaps.

Gnomes turn up in the most unexpected places! She didn't ask why I was photographing them!

No. 9 A Bakery

The subject I have chosen for this is a bakery but would have probably have been referred to as a Bakehouse. It is is part of the kitchens at a house we visited last week. Dyrham Park House like many large houses of it's time had a different room for different cooking activities. There is a dairy with the most beautiful delft tiles and a fountain to keep everything cool. The Bakehouse would have been the opposite, it must have been very hot. You can still see the original ovens which would have been heated by a fire.

The dough was mixed, kneaded and proved in the massive wooden box on the right which is rather like a coffin. What back breaking work!

Then there are some specimen loaves which I wouldn't recommend trying.

No.15 A Juggler

 As for the juggler. I have kept my eyes peeled for this one. I have walked out of my way looking for one. Where has the flame thrower gone from outside the Pump Room in Bath? I thought I had it the other day when the lad on the greengrocer store told me his mum is a juggler ( Why did he tell me that??) I asked if he could juggle some fruit for me but alas the skill had not been passed on! So I have had to cheat slightly. This is the idea of my friend's daughter (big Kate although she is smaller than my Kate). A picture in a book! Big Kate found one for me amongst the second hand books at Dyrham Park.

I have not given up all hope of a real one!

No. 13 A Sun Rise.
I am lucky that I can see the sun rising from my bedroom window so I was able to capture this without going too far at the crack of dawn!