I felt quite smug back in October: I'd bought my first Christmas present (unheard of for me) and so thought I'd squirrel it away in a safe place until I need to retrieve, wrap and gift it. However, there's only one slight problem with safe places - after the passage of time (in this case, over two months) you can never remember them. And so it came to pass that yesterday, some three and a half months after the secret drop, I finally stumbled upon the stash and was finally able to give the current Mrs. Medd her belated prezzie.
I'm always losing stuff. Just ask Chris Difford. In fact I was convinced I'd lost another book I was desperate to locate. In Sunlight or in Shadow - stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper - had also gone AWOL; I'd read a couple of its short stories and was saving the rest for another time; that was back in 2016. It turned up today. The moral of this story - never ever give me anything for safekeeping.
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