Ian Jelf wrote:

Whenever I come to the end of tours, be it for half a day or for several
days' duration, I always do an announcement about not leaving things
behind which I endeavour to make sound spontaneous and with feeling,
rather than just being well, an announcement. But people still leave
things, even after they've been told the tale of an incident many years
ago now, when someone left behind their artificial foot.......


Thanks. I appreciate it. I have a tendency to leave things behind,
especially when things aren't routine. The announcements help.

I recently left a much loved scarf on a train (I was very tired and had
flu so wasn't thinking). Railways don't handle lost property very well
nowadays I'm afraid.

Francis