AHA! After inexplicably losing the gas cap for our lawnmower in the space of 15 meters from the garage to the lawn (the driveway was torn up, but we scoured everything), I was dismayed to find that an essential part of the weedeater had also gone missing. Again, I looked everywhere.

Though I couldn’t imagine any reason it might have ended up apart from the machine in the shed of our little country property, today I felt compelled to check there, even being quite wet after a dog walk in the rain. I almost didn’t find it, for some reason several feet beyond my little work table in the unlit shed, lying on the dirt floor.

But … AHA!