actually I don't want a seance but are any of you with all your weird and wonderful talents psychic? I've mislaid my watch, I'm certain its somewhere in the house but I haven't been able to find it since Thursday morning. I have a habit of taking it off more or less as soon as I come in from being out and put it generally wherever, nearest shelf, worktop etc. I'm worried that the longer its missing the more chance I have of accidently putting it in the washing machine or something. Im sentimentally very attached to it, even tho I'm habitually careless with it, my dad gave it to my mum when I was born so its hehum years old. So can we all hold hands and concentrate or something and if any of you can visualise my house .....well I'd better go and tidy up.

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It's in the bathroom, Holly....

Do you hear a loud clanging noise inside the dryer?



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Ptolemy - you could be right, maybe its been eaten by the big hairy spider thats living in there at the moment.
Would be seriously disturbed if I thought you could visualise my bathroom. If I'd paid attention to plot when reading the kids HP books I'd know the word for people who can turn into animals, then I'd be able to say I hope you aren't a --------------- , are you that hairy spider. But I only skim the HP books to make sure JK isn't slipping in any gratuitous sex, (well it would account for the number of books she sells.)

Intrique - the clanging in the dryer game, I love that, I can identify quite a lot of different noises now.

The word is 'animagus'.

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If I were a spider-Animagus I would also check behind the fridge. :)

Have you checked all your pockets, or any bag/purse you might have been carrying? I usually find stuff I've mislaid in one or another of these places. I too have things I put down right when I come in, and if I forget I have a miserable time until I can locate them.

It hasn't fallen down the back of a radiator behind the shelf you usually put it on or something has it? I lost a ring I valued that way...



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Holly,

When I lose something I generally find once I stop looking for it. And it's normally right in front of my face. If you find your keys, you'll probably find your watch in the same place.

I generally find things by deliberately looking for something else. If I had lost my watch (difficult, as it is always pinned to my clothes) I should at once start looking for my mobile phone! It sounds weird, but it works.



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Have you tried near the kitchen sink? I am forever taking my watch off to wash up, and then leaving it somewhere in the kitchen...



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

It'll be in the last place you look. Unless, of course you're one of those stupid people who continue looking for something after they've found it, of course.



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That's what I wanted to say! I couldn't remember it though.



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Just slumped into corner of sofa to enjoy a nice cold guinness and rummaged down the side of the seat for the remote control and guess what I found. a load of fluff and some bits of lego but still no watch. I'm beginning to think I may have to 'spring clean' the house from top to bottom in the hope of finding the thing, being very cynical I'm also wondering if hubby has hidden said watch in the hope that this will force me to 'spring clean' the house. I think I'll hold out a little longer, hell we can still beat a path to the doors.

lol! Your housekeeping sounds like mine... it couldn't have fallen under the bed or got tangled in a pillow case or something could it?



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Well.........no. Now I'm going to sound not only like a clarty mare but a clarty mare who needs therapy, I never leave the watch in my bedroom, nor any of the rest of my late mum's jewellery, I have this really weird feeling that I just don't want to wake up in the night and find my mum looking for her watch and her rings, I'm sorry sounds crazy but if you'd known my mum you'd understand why this would be quite likely!!!!!!!!! and before you say it, no, I don't think she has come and got it. Can't believe I'm actually going to post this but then there's not many people around at the mo.

Don't worry about it, sounds reasonable to me (but then what do I know?) Personally I wish my mum would come back & look for her jewellery, I'd like to have a chat with her! Hmm. That last bit didn't mean you wouldn't with yours btw - sorry! *limps away with foot in mouth*



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It may yet come to light, Holly. I finally found my copy of LIAGB, nearly two weeks after it went missing, and after buying a new copy for Jasper to sign. It was hidden under a dictionary, so perhaps it was hiding from an attack of the mispeling vyrus.

Talking of losing things, has anyone found Kaz's marbles?



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I wouldn't mind having a chat with her, I just don't want to wake up to find her hovering or hoovering around my bedroom in the middle of the night.

yeah now you mention it - wouldn't be too keen to find mine doing that (but the chances of her hoovering are about 5 million to one against - if it was a housework cometition she'd get minus points!)



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