An original gnomer repents but probably too little too late in terms of the hobby

“Thinking outside the box” is the most hated office jargon phrase

A woman received a bequest of 3000 watering cans – 2999 more than the rest of have

America’s longest married couple now on twitter dispensing advice(they got married sometime around 1923…

So when the woman in England’s Midlands got the official note that her gnomes had to go, did the official really think they were a fire hazard or just seized an opportunity to reduce the population by two?  (The gnome owner has prevailed – garden gnomes not currently deemed a fire hazard…)  It does seem amazing how many people love them (25 million garden gnomes in Germany alone?) and hate them e.g. the gnome factory in New Zealand that was destroyed by arson.  Reading the Wikipedia entry on garden gnomes doesn’t really clear much up – except that you will know more about garden gnomes than anyone really ought to such as the last survivor of the first set introduced to England is insured for approximately 1.5 million dollars. Why?