someone should write a song about the gnome which was stolen (liberated?) from a garden and then the owner received picture postcards from the gnome on his travels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_gnome_prank

Gnome at Last http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043552/Gnome-Stolen-garden-elf-returned-7-month-adventure-world.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/how-murphy-the-stolen-gnome-went-around-the-world-in-48-photographs-891505.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk4_s6nb0Z8 (interview with Murphy's "owner"
   Murphy (2008) wasnt the first travelling gnome, but is a famous one. other examples of stolen gnome in popular culture include the 2001 film Amelie and the travelocity ad campaign 2004: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0130/p14s01-lihc.html

etc

There must be a song! it could be a continuation of Miles' song as that explains why the gnome had to get away.

there is a music group called Stolen Gnomes