Gnomes

Gnomes are usually old. Old men with long white beards, rounded tummies and red pointy hats. Sometimes you get Mrs Gnome or the odd gnome-child making an appearance, but mostly gnomes are male and rather old.

Apparently when I was born I was so tiny that I earned this nickname...

Remember the garden gnome in the movie Amelie? The one who travelled around the whole world, inspiring his owner to do the same... What a nice thought. An inspirational travelling gnome.

Is a name a self-fulfilling prophecy? One that you live up to because it has been assigned to you? Or has there been some hand in this - a Godly hand - that has moved your name-givers to give you a name that epitomises you...