Norman the Gnome meets Heartbeat

Well, as you can see, I'm back in North Yorkshire.

I got a lift home in a police car with Heartbeat's PC Younger! Woweeee!
PC Younger wished me well with my boy band - Gnomes 'R' Loud, and I think he will come and see us perform when I get the band put together.

He is my Hero . . . and I think he's Ellen's Hero too ;-)

The production team was so impressed with me, they asked me to hang around and be an 'extra'. So . . . I have spent a very different afternoon - filming - in the arms of Jane.

Does this mean I have celebrity status already?
There was a downside though. I'd forgotten how cold it is in North Yorkshire. Us poor extras were frozen. But the warmth of everybody made up for it. Can't remember when I last met such nice people.

(Trust my buddy Nev to get in on the act. Seems he had climbed into a tree to wait for me and the sharp eye of the law spotted him. PC Younger kept a close eye on him. But Nev wasn't going to move. He had the best vantage point to watch all of the action.)

Ellen sends her special thanks to Andrew, Chris, Jane, and the utterly charming Steve Blakely.

Norman to Home

Hi folks,

Norman here!

You're wondering where I've gone?

Well...that's for me to know and you to find out.
But, I'm glad that I've been missed.

Bob Johnson's depressing weather forecast was my inspiration to up sticks, and boy did he get it right. Have you seen the weather in North Yorkshire today? If not, here are a couple of photos to show you what I'm missing.

I know you've had some info as to my whereabouts...I'm the only one who really knows. Ha ha ha!!! BUT you could say that I'm away with the Faeries ;-)

Love,
Norman the Gnome x

Norman - The Gnome

The weather has been kind to us in the past few days in the UK, so you can understand that we’ve spent some time in the garden...not actually doing anything practical, of course, but making lots of plans for the coming summer.

Our favourite place to stand and plan is beside the pond, next to Norman, one of our gnomes.

We love Norman and always tell him what’s going to be happening in the garden over the summer. Yesterday was no exception. We told him about the apple tree that’s going to be planted for Katie our horse, and the additional lavender plants that are coming.

So....can you imagine our horror when, this morning, we looked out and saw that Norman was missing!!!!

At first we thought he had toppled into the pond. But no! In his usual place something white glinted in the early sunshine. I rushed outside to check things out and there it was....a brief message scrawled on an envelope...it was so simple...he’s always been a gnome of few words, always preferring to listen.


Well... the little blighter was certainly listening to us yesterday, because as well as discussing the garden we talked about the weather, especially the awful wintry forecast that we’d heard on ITV for the coming weekend.

So...as we see it....It’s all down to Bob Johnson’s wintry weather forecast! (He’s the local ITV weather man) he’s our fave forecaster. Obviously Norman’s taken Bob’s forecast to heart and gone to find some sunshine!

We are so worried. Our Norman’s gone off somewhere - BUT WHERE???

Gone Gnoming - that was all his note said. BUT his little gnome passport that he keeps under the gooseberry bush is missing! So he could be heading anywhere in the world.........


If you think that you might have seen Norman, then do please let us know. Take a good look at his photograph - we don’t want any mistakes!




His friends are worried sick, and it looks like they might set out to find him.
Oh dear, then what will we do?