mystery puddings

Eighteen months ago I opened the blind in my bedroom and saw a magnificent, large evergreen plant on the roof of the car on my driveway. The plant was obviously new and in a large, expensive container. My neighbours knew nothing about the plant. I asked around likely people who might have sent it to me. Nothing. I asked on local social media if a plant had gone missing from anyone's garden. Nothing. I still have this lovely plant. But where did it come from. A mystery.

One day a couple of years ago, I found a lot of stuff strewn around my lawn. A shredded carrier bag, two empty foil readymeal containers with toothmarks, two unmarked lidded good quality plastic containers, one containing salad and the other fruit, and an intact unmarked banana. All perfectly new and fresh.

Using my little grey cells, I deduced that someone had put down a carrier containing that day's meal while they took other stuff into the house, but before they went back for it a fox had carried it off to my lawn to investigate. The ready meals were approved and eaten and the trays licked clean, but the sealed containers didn't give off any tasty smell so were ignored, and it seems the banana didn't appeal.

I threw out the food, but I washed the plastic boxes well and I'm using them still.

How intriguing, I would say too heavy for a cat so presumably a fox but I wonder where they came from.

As Callistemon says check the date - on the other hand, whatever the date, bin it - something stranger could happen ....

Are they still in date?