I think I've lost a ring, but I'm not 100 percent sure I have so I'll keep looking. Have you ever lost something of value and did you ever find it?

[Ming the Merciless]

My mates Mum. If she's still alive she'd be well into her Eighties now.

Maybe hookup for old times sake.

 

[Jameshow]

I’ve had to crawl in the undergrowth to find my wedding ring when it’s fallen off when fingers cold. Ought to get it resized really, as slimmer then when I got married.

I went t to pick up some insulated roofing sheets and a guy had a skip full of rubble, desperately sifting through it trying to find a wedding ring! Good luck I said!🤣🤣

 

[Accy cyclist]

Thanks for all the replies. I'll read them and reply to some later as I've been busy today searching for my lost ring! I searched around my flat, my car, outside my flat, around my dad's and grandparents graves and outside in the garden area. I resigned myself to my loss, with just one chance of finding it left. I've posted photos of the 'Bird Lady's' grave on CC before, showing pics of the birds I feed, letting her feed her birds from the grave as such. Today I had a thought. I rubbed some bread between my fingers, as I usually do at her grave to break it down into crumbs. Low and behold a ring I'd put on for the experiment came off due to the bread rubbing motion. This told me that there was a big chance I'd lost it near Bird Lady's grave on Thursday evening when feeding the birds while stood at her grave. My last chance turned out to be a huge moment of success, as when I got to her grave a couple of hours ago there was my lost ring on the ground next to her grave! I was a grave width nearer to the path than Bird Lady's grave because when I'd got out of my car on Thursday evening I stood at the closer to the path grave as I'd left my walking stick in my car, not being able to walk another yard without it. So it was there for around 48 hours, a mere yard away from the path which umpteen folk must've walked on since Thursday! Why nobody saw it I do not know as it's quite 'blingy'! Even the magpies who feed at her grave didn't see it!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Here is the lost then found ring, mentioned in a previous CC thread. At today's 14 karat scrap gold price it's worth approximately £440, so I'm glad I found it and not one of the cemetery's grass cutters, or other grave visitors etc!

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/b...as-an-investment-and-or-to-wear.295316/page-4

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Here is the lost then found ring, mentioned in a previous CC thread. At today's 14 karat scrap gold price it's worth approximately £440, so I'm glad I found it and not one of the cemetery's grass cutters, or other grave visitors etc!

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https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/b...as-an-investment-and-or-to-wear.295316/page-4

Did you have to sever the wearer’s hand to retrieve the ring?

 

[Drago]

Did you have to sever the wearer’s hand to retrieve the ring?

He's been itching to try out his new swordstick.

 

[Accy cyclist]

It was during the London Olympics in 2012. Me, the then Mr's Accy and daughter went on a shopping trip to Manchester. The following day I couldn't find the car key for our annoyingly self locking VW Golf. After searching for hours I convinced myself I'd left/locked them in the car's boot, so reluctantly I called a locksmith who 'specialised in car door locks' out. I thought he'd fanny around with delicate devices to tweak the car door open, but no he just rammed something similar to a small crowbar between the door and the frame, wrenching the door open! He asked for 50 quid, leaving my car with dents on the door frame and panel! When I opened the boot with the button inside the car I looked to find the keys weren't there! I gave, up thinking I'd now have to buy a replacement fob, costing another 100 quid and probably more! That night Mrs Accy decided to carry on the sewing she was doing after our trip to Manchester. On opening the sewing tin she found the lost keys in there, confessing she didn't remember putting them there and wondering why she did!

 

[Seevio]

"I think I've lost a ring, but....."

There is a very, very simple way to test this.

Do you know where the ring is?
Yes: The ring isn't lost.
No: The ring is lost.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My Clarinet that I had only had since I was 11 and reached grade 5 or 6 on (I got a 1 in my Scottish Standard Grades with it, before I was diagnosed with Leukaemia and things were never really the same after that).
I knew that instrument intimately - It was almost an extension of myself.

And no, it was never found. 😭😭😭

@briantrumpet, it was a Yamaha 26II from the early '90s', ex rental.

 

[Accy cyclist]

"I think I've lost a ring, but....."

There is a very, very simple way to test this.

Do you know where the ring is?
Yes: The ring isn't lost.
No: The ring is lost.

But I didn't know where it was till I found it, which is usually the case! You're thinking like those who say things like 'Do you know where you've lost it'? when they've been told you've lost something! Er, if I knew where I'd lost it i'd go and get it ffs.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Accy on the list DUE to his multi worded header.No i am only joking.

I know you like my 'make them as long as possible' thread titles Postie! I think I might've been able to stick another few letters in, but looking at the editing it'd need, I thought it might cock the first title up, so I left it!

 

[Accy cyclist]

My Clarinet that I had only had since I was 11 and reached grade 5 or 6 on (I got a 1 in my Scottish Standard Grades with it, before I was diagnosed with Leukaemia and things were never really the same after that).
I knew that instrument intimately - It was almost an extension of myself.

And no, it was never found. 😭😭😭

@briantrumpet, it was a Yamaha 26II from the early '90s', ex rental.

Wouldn't you think the finders would've handed it in to the police etc for you to reclaim it.🧐 Having said that, the plod don't take 'lost property' in these days, saying their stations would be full of the stuff if they did.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Wouldn't you think the finders would've handed it in to the police etc for you to reclaim it.🧐 Having said that, the plod don't take 'lost property' in these days, saying their stations would be full of the stuff if they did.

TBH, I think it was stolen, but I have no proof.

 

[Accy cyclist]

TBH, I think it was stolen, but I have no proof.

How horrible are/were they!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How horrible are/were they!

Yeah it's these things where you might have suspicions, but no proof m, so there is not much you can do about it.

Oh well, hey ho.