Well I asked the boys what they wanted me to keep and was quite surprised.............their list was longer than the girls.

The only thing they parted with was some of their old football jackets.............and even then that was only if their niece and nephew wanted them.

The girls I gave no choice to.............I packed their stuff into a container each and delivered it to them.

Then I remembered I had a pillow case full of cards in the top of the hall cupboard.

That can wait for another day.

Our daughter and her family are off to Victoria for a few days.

And she was packing getting ready today.

Our youngest grand daughter has this duck pillow pet she wont sleep without.............and do you think we could find it today.

We asked her did she know where she put it...............and she kept saying she had put it in the wash.

Well we looked...........and it was not there.

So we asked her again...................she said she put it in the wash.

So we kept on looking.............and you know what it is like................the longer you look the more stupid the places are you look.

Our daughter was getting a bit frantic by now.............she was imagining having an upset three year old a long way from home and no duck pillow pet.

We ask our grand daughter again......................"Do you know where "Duckie" is?"

"In the wash"............she says.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........I remember seeing her playing in her Dollies Corner.

"Whose wash sweetheart"...........I asked............."Mummy's wash.............or your wash?"

"My wash".............she says.

BINGO!!!!!......................there was Duckie................in our grand daughters wooden washing machine.

Crisis averted.................