This house eats things!

No, it's not the house, it's The Borrowers.

Every house has a Clock family, Pod, Homily and Arriety.

You will never see them, but they're there.

Phoenix our elderly cat Missy, has always collected things and left them in our hall as gifts. Her largesse includes men’s odd socks (not my partners), children’s T-shirt’s, a baby grow, crusty looking y fronts and women’s knickers.

Where and how she got these and dragged them over many high garden fences, I do not know.

Her most recent acquisition was a pair of my knickers (I must have dropped them by the washing basket, in our bedroom) and when we returned on New Years Eve, they were artfully displayed in the hall. They were definitely not artfully displayed there, when we went out ...

Please be careful of the cats, it is thought that they may eat Borrowers, that could be why Egglatina disappeared.

Callistemon why on earth would The Borrowers want the garden plan?

Their ways are mysterious phoenix

For a nice new carpet?

Ah - the cocktail sticks!
Fencing for their new garden!!

If The Borrowers want a new carpet, they are welcome to take the tiny bit that is in the cupboard under the stairs, God knows why it's there, but hey ho! It's all of about a foot square

As for cats, Minnie is (I think) too small and timid to tackle a Borrower, and as Oliver Sprout seems to suffer from a moderate form of CBA, I doubt if he would stir his stumps either!

Nortsat46, does Missy know Slinky Malinky? . www.penguin.co.uk/books/392/39207/slinky-malinki/9780140544398.html

I bought some wool to make my dd a cardigan. It totally disappeared and I had to re-buy. Then we were to go away for a few days and my Dh discovered it - underneath a suitcase! I mean - Why? How?

Definitely Borrowers - your garden plan has been cut to size and is currently being used as wallpaper

It wasn't the Borrowers knitting a new carpet then!!

I'm going now, honestly

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Socks? Pens? Scissors? Just bought a bag of tea lights as they were finished....nope, they reappeared in the food cupboard...my engagement ring turned up under a large stone in the garden seven years later when I fell over the stone, now I just trust to serendipity. ?

This may sound strange, maybe even unbelievable, but when first married to ex dh, we lived in Windsor Castle, George IV Lodge, Lancaster Tower (bottom floor of the left hand tower of you are looking up the Long Walk)

Things would go missing in the flat, little things like tweezers from the bathroom shelf. One day I stood in the middle of the flat and said "OK, give it back" 2 days later, the item reappeared.

Minnie having a ???

I’ve lost my milk pan...........

SueDonim, Missy is also black and I now realise that Slinky Malinky is her cousin and they meet up for high jinks and tutorials on stealing ...

Words will be had ...

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Doodle Minnie is such a fussy little baggage when it comes to food,that somehow I don't really see her preparing candles for a clandestine soiree with her chums!

Nannylovesshopping it's probably in the pan swallowing cupboard.

My house eats money. Constantly. And in huge quantities.

A friend moved one Saturday to a house in the middle of a grove and introduced herself to her new neighbours. She'd had a catflap installed in her front door. On the Sunday she let her cat out for the first time. Cat went exploring and returned dragging a beautifully cooked still hot leg of lamb
Friend never knew who'd lost their Sunday lunch!

@Alishka I knew someone who had two Siamese cats, who worked together as burglars. Two pork chops once. Another day an unopened half defrosted bag of prawns, the two cats carrying a corner each!

elsie my friend's cat was a Siamese too! Loved that yours worked in cahoots

Bad cats, Nortsat! Tsk tsk! No Dreamies for them!

CANAPES *NOT candles! Damn auto correct!

Our cat was found tucking into MiL’s Christmas turkey (cooked). She just laughed ...
Things go missing here too but I usually find them on a shelf too high for me to see - theBorrowers are tall here in Scotland!