The amazing story of a globetrotter garden gnome

This is such an incredible story !! Seven months ago, when Eve Stuart-Kelso from UK woke up, she realised that her leprechaun Murphy standing outside her Gloucester home had disappeared.

A few weeks ago, she found him back just in front of her door, carrying a note putting his world tour down to "itchy feet".

The album shows Murphy abseiling down a mountain, standing in a shark's mouth and riding a motorbike. He visited 12 countries: South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Laos.

Before he left, the Gnome left a letter: "There's more to life than watching daily commuter traffic and allowing passing cats to urinate on you," the letter said. This reminds me the French film Amelie starring Audrey Tautou in which a gnome belonging to Amelie's father is taken around the world and photographed to show him how much he is missing out on in life.

Seven months were enough to forget the missing gnome, and when Mrs Stuart-Kelso opened the door and saw he was back, she was quite shocked !!

Then, she opened the album the gnome brough and discovered his amazing trip....She then said, "It was the strangest gift I have ever received. I just keep thinking how funny it is. It makes me smile to see all the people he met on his travels".