> The sneer that's often used for kitsch was also used for fish knives
> incidentally; Cf Betjeman. Here the point was, presumably, that fish
> knives
> were owned only by someone who had also 'bought his own furniture'.
>
> But I have left out garden gnomes. Though that's maybe not their loss. Or
> indeed yours necessarily.
>
> CW
Garden gnomes may be kitsch, but 18thC professional hermits were definitely
camp.
Rodent
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