Long story but bear with me!
DS1 lost his phone on Monday - it's one of those Sony Ericsson Walkman ones, and he had lots of tunes and photos and phone numbers on it. He does a milk-money-collection round on Monday evenings and the last time he definitely had it was in the van talking to the milkman about a mile away; when he got home and looked for it later it wasn't in his pocket but he assumed it was in the house somewhere.
Next day he looked around where he'd got out of the van, and the milkman searched the van, and DS1 also went in to the police station to ask, but no luck and we thought it had gone forever
Today he and DS2 went off with a football to play on the astroturf at the tennis courts. Normally they walk up our road and go in at the back; today they decided to walk up the parallel road and go in at the front across the cricket field. When they got there DS1 kicked the ball across the field; he "sliced" it (I never know what that means ) so it went really far.
When he got to where it was lying, his phone was in the grass right next to it.
The phone is quite wet inside but he was due for an upgrade in March anyway. The memory card and SIM cards look as if they will be OK. How good's that?