That is my dilemma after finding that the removable bases from two of my mini flan tins have gone missing.    Not just missing as in lurking about in the bottom of the drawer, or wandering off in amongst the big boy roasting tins, cos I’ve checked all those places.  No, we are talking missing as in the way my mind disappears when I see or hear the word ‘celebrity’ or a trailer for another book, documentary or film on the late Princess of Wales.  

So do I throw away the two bottomless flan tins, knowing that as soon as the dustmen have taken them away, their bottoms will immediately reappear, unrepentant and sniggering about their weekend away, or do I use up valuable cupboard space by putting them in the box with all the other broken/instruction manual-less items that I cling to in the wildly optimistic hope that one day they will be reunited with their missing partners?

I’ll need to decide sooner or later, because I had to go to the Co-op  to buy a quiche for dinner, instead of making it.