Borrowers

You know how things vanish from where you left them and everyone swears they didn't touch the item? This has happened significantly and bizarrely here twice since I arrived. The first one was a book that was nearly finished and was left on a bed has vanished without a trace. We have looked EVERYWHERE and we still can't find it. That is pretty common you might say, but today, an entire set of school clothes, complete with shoes, vanished from the kitchen floor. There are not many places to hide clothes on a kitchen floor but they vanished. Everybody swears innocence and we have looked all over the place for them.

There is a story written by Mary Norton and it is about miniature people who live in houses and "borrow" small items that they believe won't be missed by the big people. Excepts that a pile of clothes is not the likely target for borrowers, I am tempted to imagine that this is what happened.