While on the "Gnome" theme - does anyone know where the following song comes from.
I "think" I heard it at Sidmouth Festival many, many years ago (at a children's event).
I learnt it and sang it to my kids, and I sometimes sing it when the occasion demands, and even had it collected off me at Pinewoods Camp Folk Music week last year.

THERE'S A GNOME IN MY GARDEN.
There's a gnome in my garden
His name is Hob. He has an unusual sort of job,
He stands for hours in his little coat of red
Fishing for fish in the flower bed.

Shhh, shhh, don't say a word, he'd be most upset
If he thought it was absurd.

Wouldn't it be funny if a fish with fins & gills
Would swim in secret somewhere among the daffodils.

Shhh, shhh, don't say a word he'd be most upset
If he knew it were absurd.

Tim Radford