Hey! That time again, already!

Now, although I would like the watch, candlesticks or Audi, winning nowt will not dampen my spirits tonight. Let me explain why.

About twenty years ago, my late wife, Mavis and I bought a long gold chain and had the jeweller split it. Mavis wore two thirds of it as a necklace, and I wore the remainder as a wrist-chain. Neither of us ever took them off, except for baths and showers.
Wed thred© readers will know that my wrist-chain was the one that travelled to Liverpool and back, dangling over the top rung of a ladder on the back of a tanker I was driving!
After the loss of my wife, just over three years ago, I had her necklace split into two, for my two sons to wear as wrist-chains.

Nine days ago, on Mother's Day, I took my grandchildren to a 'petting farm' about 30 miles away, where children get to react with baby goats, pigs, cows and the like. When we got home I noticed my chain was missing. Absolutely distraught, and with tears in my eyes, I stripped the car down, looking under the carpets, down the back of the seats, even in the boot though I hadn't even been there!
I 'phoned two police stations to report it missing and rang the farm to see if somebody had handed it in. No such luck.
On the Tuesday, I rented a transit to collect an Avant that Dave from King Street had kindly given me.  Just half an hour from King Street, I decided to go back to the petting farm and have a look round. Yes, I know it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, but you never know.. (I even prayed that I would find it, not something I usually do). We had been there for about four hours on the Sunday and I retraced every step to no avail!
Naturally, I have been down in the dumps since.
This morning, 9 days later, I got a 'phone call from the farm saying they had found it!!!!!! Halleluja!
It was in a field of goats where I had not been, and was described as being "rather dirty"! I think it had been through the digestive system of some goat or other. I kid you not!
Anyway, I have boiled it and put it back on my wrist where it belongs. I am truly a happy bunny.
Good luck comes in threes, doesn't it?
Avant----Gold chain----Prize draw, eh?

Andy T.