What Are The Odds On This Happening ?

[Dee Sa]

In our local rag today, an elderly gentleman now aged 89 years young lost his wallet whilst working in Lambeth Palace as an electrician 65 years ago, it has recently been found behind a book shelf during renovations Lambeth Place traced the man living in a care home in Essex and reunited him with his lost property, I love happy endings.

[Psybbo]

That is amazing, lovely, thank you, Dee

[flump1]

Dee, what a lovely story. I bet the man was astounded !

[marval]

What a great story, I love a happy ending.

[jno]

lol, what's your newspaper, the "Month Behind The" Times?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11471864/Pensioner-reunited-with-lost-wallet-65-years-later.html

[tonyav]

Thats great, Dee. Did he have any of those White fivers in it I wonder.

[Peter Pedant]

They dredged up an old submarine ( tee-vee prog ) which cant have been sunk but must have been abandoned

and an old German sea salt was on hand,- who said - ach yes I used to sleep over there, and mein gott my tobacco pouch and diary is still there !

blimey !

My mother loved throwing things away or selling things from the house and sold a desk I had used...
so my brother was reunited a few years later with my o level textbooks and exercise books that she had failed to clear before consignment. we were by then in our thirties....

[ he still lived near the auction house ]

[Dee Sa]

sorry jno but I only saw the story in yesterday's Romford Recorder probably because the gentleman concerned now lives in the area.

[Peter Pedant]

Dee Dee

I think the phrase is " picked up by a stringer"
and there is no need to apologise

and it was a cuddly 'aaaaahhhh' story for a ( damned wet) Saturday morning

[Dee Sa]

thank you Peter P, I thought the story [ however old] had a nice ring about it, but I had not seen it before.

[jno]

lol, I was only teasing, Dee Sa, local papers sometimes get stories before the dailies, but sometimes a while after.