They say travelling does wonders for your elf...
But Murphy the Gnome has been on a world tour to dwarf all others.
He was snatched from owner Eve Stuart-Kelso's garden - and returned seven months later with 48 photos of his adventures. They show the 10-inch leprechaun abseiling and hiking in New Zealand mountains, posing by Sydney harbour and taking a dip in Thailand.
With them was a letter to gran Eve explaining his absence. It read: 'Whilst surveying your front garden one summer morning, I began to get somewhat itchy feet.
'There is more to life than watching the daily commuter traffic and allowing passing cats to urinate on you.
'So I decided to free myself from the doldrums of the Shire and seek adventure.'
The pictures, put in an album, also show him on a Singapore cable car, visiting a temple in Cambodia, on a boat in China and standing in a shark's mouth.
Other places he visited were South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Laos.
Tour guide Eve, of Gloucester, said: 'I keep thinking how funny it is. It makes me smile to see all the people he met. The intriguing thing is someone went to such trouble to do this for a stranger.'
The episode mirrors 2001 film Amelie. But killjoy cops were not amused and said yesterday: 'What may seem a laugh to one person can cause distress to another.'"
But Murphy the Gnome has been on a world tour to dwarf all others.
He was snatched from owner Eve Stuart-Kelso's garden - and returned seven months later with 48 photos of his adventures. They show the 10-inch leprechaun abseiling and hiking in New Zealand mountains, posing by Sydney harbour and taking a dip in Thailand.
With them was a letter to gran Eve explaining his absence. It read: 'Whilst surveying your front garden one summer morning, I began to get somewhat itchy feet.
'There is more to life than watching the daily commuter traffic and allowing passing cats to urinate on you.
'So I decided to free myself from the doldrums of the Shire and seek adventure.'
The pictures, put in an album, also show him on a Singapore cable car, visiting a temple in Cambodia, on a boat in China and standing in a shark's mouth.
Other places he visited were South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Laos.
Tour guide Eve, of Gloucester, said: 'I keep thinking how funny it is. It makes me smile to see all the people he met. The intriguing thing is someone went to such trouble to do this for a stranger.'
The episode mirrors 2001 film Amelie. But killjoy cops were not amused and said yesterday: 'What may seem a laugh to one person can cause distress to another.'"
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