Finding things you thought you'd lost

Many years ago my husband lost a hard contact lens whilst we were walking in the Peak District. Try finding such a tiny thing amongst the blades of grass covered in shiny dew! I had the bright idea of throwing some grass in the air to see which way the wind took it. And when it dropped down there was the lens!

I lost a key ring with both car and house keys on it. DH insisted I had left the key in the front door and wanted to change the locks. 10 days later I found the keys in the greenhouse!

Just before Covid struck and they made us isolate for 2 years here in Victoria I bought a new blouse and forgot it with all the stress. I found it recently ,still with the tags on, in a bag at the back of the wardrobe. Felt like I’d been given a present !

Shopping in Asda my engagement ring felt uncomfortably right so I put in onto another finger. Back home it was missing. In a panic I went back to Asda to the enquiry desk...and there it was. Some kind person had handed it in and didn't even leave their name so I could thank them.

DH and I were walking along Beach to Burghead for lunch - (why?!) - on a very windy day when one of my dangly earrings was wrenched out of my ear and away by the breeze. "Don't worry" says he, "I'll find it for you on the way back"...and, Reader, he did! I still don't understand how he did it, though....

The kitchen fitters found my opal and diamond ring when they dismantled our kitchen to fit a new one. It had been missing for about 10 years. I was so pleased to see it o gave the chap a hug on my excitement. How it had got onto the back of the kitchen units heaven knows. When it first went missing we had the whole house upside down searching. I'm now very careful about where I put my rings of I take them off for washing up etc.

Sitting on the loo, I happened to look down at the floor and discovered the diamond that had fallen out of my engagement ring a few days earlier. Thank goodness I don't vacuum daily!

I found my personalised leather glasses case in the pocket of a hoodie I hadn’t worn since early spring. Of course I had already sent for a new one and now one is surplus!

Husband collected prescription eye drops 2 weeks ago. They vanished. We looked in all the usual places, no luck. Last night I fluffed up cushions on sofa and there they were!

My bus pass! I use it a lot so it was a major PITA to lose it. I couldn’t think I’d dropped it, so checked in shopping bags to make sure I hadn’t inadvertently dropped it in one of those.

A couple of months later, well after I’d received a new one, I was rummaging in the freezer and found the old one - stuck to some frozen item I’d evidently bought that day.

Shame I didn’t think of that before - had to supply a different photo for the new one and I look 20 years older. 😱

I thought I'd lost a gold and ammolite pendant bought for me by my husband. The box it lives in was empty, the last place I remember wearing it was at my DD's flat in Glasgow. She searched for me but couldn't find it.
I was looking for something else, going through the pockets of my little backpack and found my pendant in the narrow front pocket.
Why I put it there, I have no idea.

Not mine, but I once found a very tarnished silver claddagh ring in - wait for it! - one of my deep, pull-out pan drawers. How on earth it got there is anyone’s guess. It had been missing for ages, thought gone for ever.

This was many years ago - a dd had been given it by an Irish friend when she was maybe 10.

She’s now over 40 and was wearing it - nice and shiny! - yesterday.