I’ve often thought that there has to be a good story in ceramic garden gnomes. The story would be a variation on a fairy tale, told in modern times with garden gnomes coming to life and doing good or evil.
So now – truth is stranger than fiction – the real story is written for us.
Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England.
“I grabbed the first thing that came to hand — one of my garden gnomes — and hurled it at him, and hit him,” she recalled.
I love it!
I also like the use of the word woken. Coming from the Hudson Valley and being descended from the Dutch settlers, germanic variations on some common English words are part of my vocabulary, but I have to careful not to use get or got in the perfect tenses or verb forms ending in en or on because they sound strange to people outside the region.