Week 12 - Laura - Mystery

I had originally planned another piece involving death for this week, but I just didn't have the stomach to write it. Instead, inspiration for the storyline of a children's book hit. Ideally it would have some great illustrations. I've been busy covering the local election count (and re-count - the gift that just keeps on taking!) though, and I'm not much of an artist, so you'll have to use your imagination for those.

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My mam always says it's a mystery how so many socks go missing in the wash.

It's not a mystery. She just doesn't know. But I do.

Every washing machine has a secret escape hatch high up in the corner at the back that socks can just about wriggle through.

If socks have been hanging out with cool shoes they'll sometimes stay and be washed.

But if they're bored, or if they've been worn with boring goodie-two-shoes, they'll escape for some fun and do things socks normally don't get to do...

...like go for a walk on a sandy beach
...or put on flip-flops
...or go paddling
...or even get tucked up under the duvet and go for a snooze.

Most of the time the socks crawl back through the escape hatch in the washing machine before my mam takes the clothes out to dry.

But sometimes they're having too much fun and forget.

And that's why so many socks go missing in the wash.