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igenlodeI have lost my favourite 'pack-away shopping bag' -- they are two a penny these days, like 'bags for life', but this one has properly stout seams and a built-in pocket that it folds itself away into, and can be used for carrying heavy items such as newly-picked vegetables. I am pretty sure I felt it (although did not see it) yesterday evening, when I consciously pushed it aside in order to use a much flimsier bag that normally lives underneath it, a decision for which I no longer remember the rationale, but when I got home from the shops it was not there.
I cycled back five miles today to see if I had perchance spilled it out onto the counter or the floor in the process of packing items into the lightweight bag/my cycle pannier, but although the people at the shop remembered me they hadn't found any such thing. I even went back to the supermarket I visited afterwards, but of course they didn't know anything about it, and nobody had handed it into Lost Property. Unsurprisingly, since it's just a small roll of black cloth.
The only other possibility is that I am imagining having handled it yesterday and that it is in fact still in use somewhere with something in it (e.g. chard leaves in the fridge), but I can't see any sign of it. So I suppose I shall have to write that one off.
It's annoying, despite the fact that I do in fact routinely carry *two* other shopping bags folded away in the bottom of my leather case -- both of these fold away small, but neither can be trusted with any great weight, and in fact both have had to be repaired already after giving way along the seams. I should probably try to find my old string bag, which will carry plenty of weight, but isn't very suitable for anything smaller than a melon :-(
I cycled back five miles today to see if I had perchance spilled it out onto the counter or the floor in the process of packing items into the lightweight bag/my cycle pannier, but although the people at the shop remembered me they hadn't found any such thing. I even went back to the supermarket I visited afterwards, but of course they didn't know anything about it, and nobody had handed it into Lost Property. Unsurprisingly, since it's just a small roll of black cloth.
The only other possibility is that I am imagining having handled it yesterday and that it is in fact still in use somewhere with something in it (e.g. chard leaves in the fridge), but I can't see any sign of it. So I suppose I shall have to write that one off.
It's annoying, despite the fact that I do in fact routinely carry *two* other shopping bags folded away in the bottom of my leather case -- both of these fold away small, but neither can be trusted with any great weight, and in fact both have had to be repaired already after giving way along the seams. I should probably try to find my old string bag, which will carry plenty of weight, but isn't very suitable for anything smaller than a melon :-(
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Date: 2023-10-08 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-08 06:08 pm (UTC)Sadly my pillow cases aren't pretty prints, but plain white (or not so white, in the case of the one that was used for an improvised jelly bag) ones, and mostly worn pretty thin!
It might be worth keeping an eye out for charity shop discards, though, as single pillowslips aren't reckoned saleable. (Though to be honest, as I said, those packaway bags are two a penny nowadays, and I could almost certainly get one of those for free more easily.)
That black bag never did turn up, and I think I *must* have lost it at the shops; it just didn't get handed in as lost property worth keeping :-(
I did duly roust out the string bag, which is strong but bulkier, but I haven't had occasion to use it yet.
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Date: 2023-10-09 09:18 pm (UTC)