OK, where is it?

Has it fallen between a cupboard or down the side of something ?
Were you distracted elsewhere while carrying it ? On the hall table if you answered the door ? Near the telephone if the phone rang ? Retrace your steps, it's what I've done on occasion.

Definitely definitely not in the dishwasher Annodomini. I'm getting quite cross with it now.

Have you tried the dishwasher? It's surprising what can end up there or in the washing machine. It might be with all my missing teaspoons. About thirty years ago, DS (then a trainee chef) borrowed my knife sharpening steel and I accused him of losing it which he indignantly denied. Searched everywhere and bought another knife sharpening gadget. Moved house, no steel; new kitchen and still no steel. Last week I saw it in a kitchen drawer. It wouldn't tell me where it has been all this time.

When my kitchen floor was replaced due to dry rot, a stainless steel dinner knife was found under the floorboards.

It wasn''t one of mine, so it had been lost prior to January 1980 when I moved in.

The real mystery was that the floor that was taken up was the original one from 1889 and there wasn't a single crack in it big enough to admit a knife.

So how did it get there?

In Denmark we attribute these problems to the kind of house elves we have in this country (nisser). when they start helping themselves to things it is because they want to remind us to serve dessert for them on Christmas Eve.

Try annoncing loudly that if they bring your knife back you will serve pudding for them. It has to be left overnight for them and remember a spoon!

I lost my best bread knife ever about 5 years ago and never saw it again. We never seem to have all of the teaspoons back in the kitchen drawer at this house. They are getting as bad as socks going missing in the washing machine!

In this house cutlery often turns up in the compost when the heap gets spread on the garden. Usually teaspoons but the odd vegetable knife has reappeared over the years. There used to be other things like toy cars and birthday badges but that was in another lifetime.

Under the pillow.

(I'm quite a nervy sleeper?)

In the garden having been used to hack down some bushes
Behind the toaster
Under the bread

Or my best idea, Borrowed by the cast of Midsomer Murders
Hope you find it chewy

Looked in the freezer and it's not there. Thought it might have got in with the veg peelings and ended up in the compost bin; eurgh, no it's not. The empty space in the knife block is beginning to annoy me.

Posted too soon.

Meant to say, getting their own back.

Three Blind Mice?

When we had a new kitchen fitted the fitter found 2 knives that had mysteriously disappeared some while before. I still don't understand how they had got behind the sink , it was like the knife fairy had hidden them.

Freezer? Fridge?

You will know her/him. They are wearing my chartreuse colour, ( I like to be accurate) Phase eight linen jumper!

Oh no have you only just found it eazybee?

Look in the telephone cupboard.
That is where I put the bacon, circa 1960.

Who-ever he is, he's collecting spoons from our house - I do wish he'd stop!

I’m always losing my kitchen scissors, goodness knows how

Now you mention it, I have been missing a couple of small kitchen knives recently. Is there a rogue knife collector about? If I see your knife I'll let you know, Chewbacca.