You Cant Take It With You When You Go!

This popular motel chain has just released the list of bizarre items left behind in their bedrooms during 2010. Now I have occasionally left behind the odd toothbrush or magazine but surely you would notice the absence of a lifesize Dalek or seven artificial limbs. Or your false teeth!

• Life size electric Dalek with voice changer worth 1,650 [Newcastle ]
• Set of gold dentures worth 6,500 [Bridgend]
• Three seat antique rocking horse worth over 1,000 [Chessington]
• Decree Absolute Divorce papers [Barnstable]
• Keys to a Rolls Royce Phantom [Chester]
• Rolex Watch 50,000, Hermes Handbag 8,000 [Leamington]
• Bengal Kitten called Tiger worth 1000 [London Docklands]
• Case of royal memorabilia from Victorian era to present [Gatwick]
• A four foot Yam [Cambridge Central]
• 10,000 cash was left in the dustbin - A customer had brought the cash to purchase a car but the sale did not go through and he threw the wrong envelope into the bin [Warrington Central ]
• Traffic lollipop stick [Harrogate]
• A case designed to carry 7 artificial legs with different shoes [Wolverhampton]

And then there was this one

A groom was left tied up to the bed by his friends on the eve of his wedding as a joke. No one remembered to untie him on the morning of his wedding. The wedding had to be postponed for a couple of hours so that the groom could be found. [Kendal]

Poor chap what kind of friends were they?

Apparently books are often left behind in 2010 the top two forgotten volumes were the autobiographies of Simon Cowell and Ant&Dec. Nuff Said!

We have just had overnight guests ElizabethD and her husband, of the delightful French Village Life blog. She and I have been blogfriends for a couple of years now, and have chatted on the phone and emailed quite regularly. It was really wonderful to actually meet them properly for the first time yesterday.

They were travelling south to the ferry having spent Christmas with family, and broke their journey to stop with us for b&b. I wished they could have stayed longer, it was such fun having them with us. Maybe next timeIm happy to report that they did not leave anything behind except lovely memories and a basket of hyacinths [we noticed they were very careful to take the much admired new iPad with them when they left!]

Poor Steph is really suffering with her wrist she says it is very painful, and unfortunately the story of how she broke it is amusing, so people persist in teasing her, not realising the real discomfort she is suffering. I am resisting the inner urge to rush straight down to London and [s]mother her!