Gnome no more

Have you ever walked into a room and noticed that it was so much smaller than you remembered? Or travelled somewhere nearby and wondered why it always seemed so far away? When we're little kids, the world around us seems much bigger in comparison. So when we grow into the world, our memories are sometimes distorted. Obviously gnomes don't grow all that much, but even we recognize the phenomenon.

Some things can't be blamed on growing (up) though. I'm quite confident the 'gnome garden' in my childhood village was a colourful and happy place. But now it looks like a toy cemetery. And not a very nice one either! I spoke to a neighbour and he told me that tragically the toy collector had lost his marbles. He could no longer made a distinction between displayable objects and junk and simply put everything he found in his garden, whether it could brave the elements or not.

A very sad story. I hope parents aren't taking their kids there to see the gnomes. They're in for a nasty surprise. This is the stuff horror movies are made of. Perhaps the perfect set for the next Child's Play movie?