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Tell me about a random unsolved mystery in your life....

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RevoltingPeasant · 15/04/2014 21:23

....inspired by the intriguing threads thread!

Does anyone have a mini-mystery, or a story they want to know the end to? We can all supply improbable answers

Here's mine....

DH and I go for a walk around the block most nights before bed . Almost every night, at a particular point in the neighbouring street, there is an 'offering' of baked goods in the road.

Sometimes it is bread rolls. Sometimes, baguette. Once, about 8-9 Mr Kipling's Bakewell tarts. Just lying there in the road.

At first we thought it was for hedgehogs, but then the cakes? And in the road??

What's your unsolved mystery?

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SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 02/05/2014 23:04

Are the bowls from the same company? Maybe they were packed wrong and you both coincidentally picked up the two which were mixed up?

CatThiefKeith · 02/05/2014 22:52

Haha!

Utterly dumbfounded.

Have sent you a pm with a view to reuniting them with their families!

IsChippyMintonExDirectory · 02/05/2014 22:46

I am utterly gobsmacked.
I will make it my life's mission to reunite our bowls. Shall we call Davina McCall and see if she wants to feature it on long lost families?

CatThiefKeith · 02/05/2014 22:41

If that's the case then there are two pranksters out there, or we know the same one in rl.

Looking forward to getting a reply to see if we are actually linked in some bizarre way now.

LettertoHerms · 02/05/2014 22:35

Actually, that makes me think of that Gilmore Girls episode where the rich boyfriend came to dinner, and he had a "game" where he picked up a bit of tat from one rich family's house and left another, from a different house, in its place.

If the bowls have never left, maybe you have had a prankster over who thought it would be funny to switch a bowl?

CatThiefKeith · 02/05/2014 22:30

I have no words.

I swear the bowls have never left my house. Wtaf?

I have pm'd Chippy to see if she wants to swap.

Hmmkay · 02/05/2014 22:25

Chippy and catthiefkeith !

Surely you must know each other and have got them mixed up?

That's incredible!

LettertoHerms · 02/05/2014 22:22

You two have actually switched bowls! That is wild. I hope you're furiously pming each other to figure out how you know each other, ended up at the same party, switched bowls, then happily mn'd together never realizing.

Here's the best photos I can do, I only have my phone which isn't good with close-ups..

Tell me about a random unsolved mystery in your life....

CatThiefKeith · 02/05/2014 22:07

Chippy

Here are mine......?!

CatThiefKeith · 02/05/2014 22:06

Chippy

Here are mine......?!

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 02/05/2014 20:26

Letter, any chance of a closer look @ the Georgian button and possible the reverse aswell?

hellymelly · 02/05/2014 16:11

I was going to say Georgian too. I showed DH who has looked at a lot of old jewellry and that was his thought. Although it is hard to tell from a small pic.

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 02/05/2014 13:18

Letterto...The "button" on the right looks like it's Georgian (1820 ish?) And for some reason I'm getting a feeling, that it's Italian in origin.

AdeleNazeem · 02/05/2014 12:33

4nnabella no, I wish it was, that would be good but we could definitely hear the hoover going across the floor!

4nnabella · 02/05/2014 11:50

Adele could it have been the shower making a hoover-type noise?

hellymelly · 01/05/2014 21:59

bixie- drugs drugs drugs. However nice the neighbourhood, that is what my money would be on.

SolitudeSometimesIs · 01/05/2014 21:06

LadyFlumpalot my baby does that too. I've kind of given up eating hot meals.

IsChippyMintonExDirectory · 01/05/2014 20:52

*here

IsChippyMintonExDirectory · 01/05/2014 20:52

CatThiefKeith sorry this is a little late but hear are my bowls!

LadyFlumpalot · 01/05/2014 20:01

Why does the baby ALWAYS wake up just as my tea is getting plated up? No matter when we eat, when she goes to sleep or how long she has slwpt for, as soon as my dinner is on a plate she's awake...

AdeleNazeem · 01/05/2014 19:29

this isn't remotely wooo but has slightly perplexed me for YEARS!

about 20 years ago, fuck I'm old used to live with then boyf in a ground floor flat below another flat with a couple in. Only knew them to say hello to, seemed nice enough. Obviously their bedroom was above ours though and quite often we could hear the DTD about 5 or 6 am (not that we were listening but you know thin walls and all that!)

way to go, early morning peeps, fair enough ... but this is the bewildering thing.... there was always the sound of the hoover about 15 mins after the last gasp! wtf?!?

on second thoughts, maybe i don't want to know

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NorbertDentressangle · 30/04/2014 16:49

The jewellery and buttons turning up has reminded me of a ring that appeared in our washing machine.

It looks like an engagement style ring with 3 big 'diamonds'.

I suspect it's not 'real' as in not real gold or diamonds would be bloody lovely it was was but it does look quite old, well worn and discoloured.

DP and the DC swear blind they've never seen it before, I've certainly never seen it before but we've no idea how it appeared or where from.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 30/04/2014 15:56

Since we've gone into "woo" subjects, there was my urge to buy a lottery ticket the day after my mum died; everything else was awful, so I made a little joke about her "cheering me up" from wherever she is. I've never played the lottery apart from hat one time, but got four numbers and £80

That same night our 13 year old son, who has learning difficulties, kept talking about grandma coming to see him. Of course I thought he meant the many happy past visits, and talked about this to his obvious frustration. Eventually he insisted "no mummy, grandma came to see me last night" - and I guess I never will work that one out ...

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