Gnome and Away!

Why is it that just when you really, really need something, you can never find it? Narrow ruled A4 notepads*, pens, socks, garden gnomes…

Yup, you read that right. Garden gnomes. Three to be precise.

Y’see, as I mentioned before, I am, as part of my coursework, entering a cometition called Straight 8. So, I was struggling to come up with an idea to film. So I started brainstorming ideas and wrote that I needed, as a prop, a garden gnome.

I then got an image in my head, that I cannot budge, of a garden gnome with a lit cigarette in my mouth. This then gave me the inspiration to come up with the whole film.

So now I need to find the damn thing. Well, actually 3. One for the non smoking bit, one for the smoking bit and one so I can experiment and get the shot I want.

So, trailed round town today. Could I find anywhere which sells even one garden gnome? Can I ecclescake!

(BTW: before any of you point it out, there are no garden shops nearby and besides, I have to fund this with my own money and won’t be able to afford their prices.)

So, the Great Willish Gnome Hunt ’06 will continue tomorrow.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of me supposedly dressing like a schoolboy:

Will

*Seriously, I think I’m the only person in the world who prefers to use this type of paper. Making it hard to find and expensive when I do