Sunday, November 17, 2019

NO WAY TO TREAT A GNOME

Locked away in the corner of  a hot, cluttered  toolshed , festooned  with  cobwebs , flanked by killer sprays,  is this  grumpy gnome , discovered by our  Shipping  Reporter who intends  to  donate him  to a  Catholic white  elephant stall to  raise funds  to guarantee  continuing supplies of mascara   to highlight the  benevolent  eyes of  Australia's first saint , the  new  Mother Mary  MacKillop  portrait  in  Townsville , which replaced the badly faded  original one , still  not  noticed  by  the  local  media .