ON August 6 I went  to visit my grandma near Horrabridge. After several hours when I left gran, I had to lift my dog and my gran's dog into my car. This is usually interesting as they both would rather walk around the garden than try and get in the back passenger door onto the passenger seats. 

I put my handbag on the roof of the car and had to lift each one into the car, while making sure I was holding their leads. Once done I started driving home, with Harvey and Oliver quite happily sitting on the back seats of the car.  On arrival at home I went to get my handbag off its usual place on the front passenger seat . . . but Ha! where was it?!

After spending a good hour looking for it in the car with no luck, I drove back to gran's and looked in her home. No luck . . . though I had had an odd idea that I may have left it on the top of the car or in the driveway, but again, no luck.

So I drove to see my brother Richard who is usually very good at sorting out my problems! He drove through Horrabridge and came back to see me with the odd bit that he guessed must have been in my bag!

He checked my mobile phone to find that someone called Len had left a message saying that he had found a handbag on the road near Horrabridge with this number in it and was checking to see if he could make sure the right owner of the bag got it back.

Bless him, this gentleman had been so kind to find the bag in the middle of the round, stop and contact me to make sure I wasn't worried about it!

This is to say a big thank you to Len who went out of his way to stop in all the busy traffic to get my bag out of the road and get it back to me.  I am so grateful as it had my purse, money, personal items in — I am so pleased to have it back.

Also thank you to my colleague Alan who took me to meet Len in Yelverton car park to collect my bag from him the next day.

Kathryn

Tavistock