Gnomisms
- Bole Bop – a gnome dance
- A Beebop – any kind of musical instrument
- The Bole Hall – the gnomes’ gathering place
- Butter Girls – ethereal maidens who serve Twang and live at the Wet
- Cornies – unicorns
- Crackles – LPs or records
- Dumdums – fauns and satyrs
- Fuzzy whirls – croquet balls
- GRs – dogs
- GRRs – wolves
- Germall (germball) – croquet
- Gobble gobbles – carnivorous fish, particularly fond of the flesh of smarmers
- Gookscar – exotic plant
- Heeha – a gnome joke
- Howlers – wolves
- A Hmm – joke told by wizards
- Juicies – berries, especially strawberries or mulberries
- Moosh Bushes – rhododendron bushes
- Nose – Anatole the chef
- Pannies – fauns
- Piffle – a whistle
- Russells – ash trees
- Scouties – satyrs
- Splish, splash, splosh –The Butter Girls, or their activities
- The Shed – The Hall of Sacred Geometry
- Snarlies or sniff-whiffs – dogs. Some gnomes do not object to dogs, but they do object to their smell.
- Strawba – a strawberry drink brewed by pannies and scouties
- The Wet – Pool of Certainty
- Thrashers – guitars
- Thumpers – types of drum
- TWANG! – The Mistress Dido
- Twangers – string instruments
- Vanishers – exotic plant, like a Morning Glory
- Wishes – willow trees
- A Wishert – a wish made under a willow tree not be confused with:
- A Wishort – a wounded or frightened tree
- Woos – fir trees
- Woo Goo – sticky goo made by fir trees
- Yanger – a girl
- Younger – a boy
- Yum Yums – strawberries
From Mr. Whizz’s Notebook: Concerning the Garden: a thing rarum.
Strawba Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ounce of fresh lime juice
- 3 ounces of frozen sliced juicies in syrup, or fresh strawbs
- 1-3 teaspoons of sugar to taste
- Crushed ice
Method
Fill your mixer with crushed ice. Add lime juice, strawbs or juicies, and sugar. Blend until smooth. You may add a little water if it is too thick. Finally, garnish with an extra strawb.
Strawba For Mum and Dad
Ingredients
- 4 fresh strawbs, plus ½ for garnish
- 2 teaspoons of white sugar
- 35ml/1½ fl oz white rum
- 1 tablespoon of strawberry liqueur
- 25 ml/1 fl oz lime juice
Method
Place the strawbs, sugar, rum, strawberry liqueur and lime juice into the base of a cocktail shaker and mash with the end of a clean rolling pin. Put the lid on the cocktail shaker and give it a good shake. Finally strain the mix into a Martini glass and garnish with half a strawb.