The mystery of the vanishing watering can

Once found our missing vegetable peeler in the back garden 🤔

Hatcham

Once found our missing vegetable peeler in the back garden 🤔

I found mine when moving the compost heap.

Yes, we've found the potato peeler upon the compost heap before now.

If anyone leaves anything metal in the front garden, eg children's bikes if they go indoors for tea, a lawnmower, then the scrap men come along and take it.

I used to think it was The Borrowers, now I'm not so sure!

My favourite peeling knife went missing. It turned up at least 5 years later in the cutlery draw where it belonged! No idea where it went or how it got back 🙄

....and then again - I've just spotted a mini-video on YouTube of what they are describing as portals and looking like things are dropping in out of nowhere (eg falling from the ceiling).

Thinks - just what exactly are they up to at CERN? - just a minor issue where nobody has really ever bothered to explain just what the heck they think they're doing and how they figure they can do it safely....

Has the watering can re-appeared?

My best lost/found was my wedding ring. I am a potter and in our first house my studio was the garden room behind the garage, which housed the kiln.
I would take off my rings to save them from the clay but the wedding
ring just couldn't be found despite a lot of searching.
Fast forward a year or so, we had sold the house and were preparing for the imminent move
It was our wedding anniversary and I was on hands and knees sweeping the garage floor and there shining in the dustpan was my ring.

I can't find it at the moment actually...

Grammaretto, my friend lost her wedding and engagement rings due to weight loss. Eventually she found the engagement ring in the salad drawer of the fridge. The wedding ring was not found sadly. How lovely that you found yours on your anniversary.

DotScot

Before my Mum was diagnosed with dementia, (but perhaps there were signs) she got new curtains delivered and unpacked them ready to hang. Then they somehow went missing. We all searched the house from top to bottom, but they were nowhere to be found.
At the same time, my Mum had had carpet cleaners in, and my Mum had given them cups of tea and biscuits and chatted with them as she always does with tradespeople, getting their life stories and woes. She learned that one of them had a son who was getting married, but he didn't know what to give the couple as a wedding gift. Apparently, he wanted it to be something nice, but he didn't have a lot of money to spare. (Yes, our alarm bells were ringing at that too!)
So Mum concluded that the carpet cleaner must have taken the curtains as a wedding present for his son. Privately, we were sceptical - I mean, curtains as a wedding present? But anyway, it was a story that meant we could stop looking for them.
In the summer, the next year, we found the curtains, in their opened wrapping, outside in a garden seat that was also a storage chest. How did they get there? No-one knows. By the time they were found, my Mum had got new curtains.

I'm guessing someone found out they were stolen and brought them back.

I've never solved the mystery of the vanishing red suede shoe.
Years ago I came home from town, sat on the side of the bed and kicked my shoes off. One of them went flying through the air and vanished, never to be seen again!

Iost a pair of black trainers,I have searched theflat, nowhere to be seen, really need them!

I do honestly wonder if some of the missing possessions are "off in another dimension" or something similar - as someone else wanted them and didnt bother to specify that what they wanted wasnt to be stolen for them to have it.

I don't think anything has done a mysterious "vanishing trick" since that kitchen jug of mine back in my last house - as I felt I made it very plain to the Universe at that time that nothing was ever to "vanish" on me again...even if it subsequently reappeared.

Since then I can only recall two things going - 1. a ceramic pot a trespasser neighbour to current house accidentally broke whilst trespassing and swept up all of it except one teeny tiny little shard I found that proved I do still "own" it so to say. 2. I bought a fairly large crystal - to have a go at "protection" being set in place on my house (ie against my awful neighbours) and I'd had someone round that I was regarding as a friend at that time (we all make mistakes) and it was hidden underneath some soil in my garden by me. For some reason just after he'd been paid to do a little bit of digging in my garden by me I decided to check it was still there - and it wasnt. I think he was so gobsmacked when I asked for my crystal back that he brought it back the following day - full of excuses that he'd "thought it was a pebble", "put it in his pocket whilst waiting to dispose of it". I did give him benefit of doubt at that point - foolishly - as I paid him for a subsequent long distance lift and gave him benefit of doubt again when he said I'd not counted out quite enough money to pay him (ie he said it was £15?/£20? short).

He's off the scene now - because he knew I'd just swopped my computer and asked me if he could borrow my computer hard drive "just for a few hours - for 'me and my brother' to do whatever-it-was that was his excuse". Luckily I realised for sure he was a thief at that point and "the shutter went down on him that second" and I binned him instantly. I revised my opinion of his intelligence level from "average" down to "thick" at that point. Make that "double thick - as this is a small town with a good grapevine and an unofficial police force too" - I think there may be a few people that havent been told he's a thief yet. Silly man....very very silly man.....but I guess he's got less knowledge of this town than I have....

I once lost a brand new pair of leather gloves . Searched for months then found them in a duvet cover which I was about to iron. It hadn't been through the wash!!

Inside duvet covers is a good place to start looking, for socks and pants anyway, maybe not shoes or gloves
Farmgran & grandma2002

I have just located my wedding ring again. It had jumped out of its box. I tried it on and even on my pinkie it needed soap to pull it off again. Arthritic fingers ....
I just don't wear rings.

Here in Scotland we are advised to plant a Rowan tree near the gate to keep witches away. It works so may deter thieves too, CariadAgain

Grammaretto

Here in Scotland we are advised to plant a Rowan tree near the gate to keep witches away. It works so may deter thieves too, CariadAgain

Actually ---- yep I did plant a rowan tree in my garden and that was part of the reason I did so....

....so I've got my (reclaimed from the thief I used to know) crystal at the front and rowan tree at the back.

Am currently checking out what people are available for "house healing" - having gathered that it can also be done from a distance (if they have a plan of the house/map of area). Currently wondering if I'd be making it too easy for them to instantly go "Aha - spotted the problem" if I do a quick sketch of the area. Reason being - there's two mobile phone masts I can spot and they're visible from one of my windows (one does look like it's possibly 5G and no-one seems to believe the other one is a mast - as it's one of the ones that is disguised as a tree). But that tree has never ever moved in the wind or grown at all in the over 10 years I've lived here and I can see clearly it's one of the disguised masts they sometimes do - as it's the only darn thing around here that never ever moves - and we get strong winds here sometimes to the extent I'm having a look at other peoples fences after yet another gale to see how much damage they've had this time. (Fortunately for me when I told a local workman that I wanted a typical English fence for one of my boundaries - he gave me an old-fashioned look/summed up that I'd only lived here for a very short time at that point and then proceeded to tell me how strong the winds are here sometimes). I changed my mind and did a rather different fence/differently placed and the wind doesn't touch it....