During this time I had a friend of my sister's living with me, helping me out with my daughter who was 4 at the time. and at one point I wound up basically winning the legal disputes we were having. My ex started to act progressively weirder as our divorce dragged on, custody court, etc etc (really long story). I also had some silver that my family gave me. I left him most of the china and silver, taking just one place setting of each as a token rememberence. We received some china, silver and crystal stem ware.
Like most couples we registered for wedding gifts. Well, like most marriages, one thing lead to another, and before you know it I was contemplating whether to smother him with a pillow or leave. there were 400 people at our wedding, and it lasted four days. The cake topper couple disappeared the night of the wedding and I have never seen them since. For our thank you notes after the wedding I bought a postcard of a gnome couple sitting by the side of a lake, fishing. I thought the gnome man and woman were cute, ad I bought a gnome man and woman as our wedding cake toppers. Someone gave me this book the month I was getting married. He was 86 years old.This is one of my stranger and more embarrassing tales.įor some bizarre reason, gnomes are a recurring theme in my life. Huygen died on 14 January 2009 in Bilthoven. In the second book ( De oproep der Kabouters) both Huygen and Poortvliet make appearances themselves in both the story and the illustrations as they get contacted by the gnomes because of the Gnomes book they have written together. It was on top of the bestseller list of the New York Times for over a year (as a book on folklore, it was categorized as non-fiction). The first book in his picture book series is Gnomes (published in 1977, and originally known as Leven en werken van de Kabouter in Dutch). The seventh of ten children, his primary occupation was that of a physician. Huygen was born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. He is best known for the picture books on gnomes, illustrated by Rien Poortvliet. Willibrord Joseph Huygen (23 June 1922 – 14 January 2009) was a Dutch book author.
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