Peter Tandy wrote: > > I have always thought of gnomes as first wily/wise. The diminutive size of > a gnome is shared with a "dwarf" but a "gnome" is also "knowing". > > I'm not sure I agree with this. Who else would sit by a pond not just for a > day but for YEARS with a rod & line, with no hope whatsoever of catching > anything but pneumonia!!! > > Peter Tandy > (London) > > -
Maybe there is a name confusion: those poor (often simple indeed) creatures in the gardens are 'dwarves' captured by the house inhabitants and sequestrated there without anything to eat but the pond fishes, if any, and nothing for entertainment, not even a sundial (no,no, this is not off topic...!), most of the time... That's why we have here around a famous organization named FLNJ (Front de Libération des Nains de Jardin) which dedicates its forces to rapt them out and to liberate them in their natural environment of woods... (Authentic!). I'm afraid this organisation is now on some black list... Thierry -- __________________________________ Thierry vs 50.8N 4.3E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ -
