BEACHCOMBER 108 YEARS OLD AND FAILING TO WATCH HIS WATCH...

WHERE is my wrist watch? | have not seen it for days and it is definitely not on my wrist.

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| have looked in all the likely places: by my bed, by the bathroom sink, in the kitchen and so on, but | cannot find it.

My usual strategy at such times is to lose something else and look for that instead. That is very logical. If | have tried all the likely places when looking for something, it cannot be where it ought to be and must therefore be where something else ought to be. So looking for something else instead must be a good idea, as my experiences have shown.

A few weeks ago, | could not find my nail scissors until | also lost my fountain pen.