The Little Yellow Chopping Board

Mystical Roo and I are slowly building a stash of kitchen supplies.  It's one of those things that - unless you have lots of money to spend - when first starting out, you have to just add to.  You kind of start with some saucepans and wooden spoons and then work your way up to more exciting equipment such as the chopper and a garlic crusher.  But for some reason, Mystical Roo and I seem to have an abundant supply of chopping boards.  All in different colours and different sizes.  We have a pile of them.  I can only assume that they were some sort of bargain set that we picked up.  I can't really remember where they came from, I just know that they live in the cupboard.  And really come in handy.  I actually make great use of this number of chopping boards.  I like the fact that they come in different sizes.  You've got your big ones for some major chopping and the mini ones for the serving of delicate portions of cheese and crackers or carrot and hummus.  My favourite chopping board (yes, I know it's beyond sad to have a favourite chopping board) is they little yellow chopping board.  The smallest of the gang, he's the perfect size for single Stalky portions of cheese.  I can chop up some cheese, grab myself a glass of wine and set myself up with my book.  And the little yellow chopping board fits perfectly into this scenario.  So when I realised that I hadn't actually seen my little yellow chopping board in a number of weeks I started to worry.  I checked the pile and realised that he wasn't there.  I checked the draining board but still there was no sign.  I looked in the fridge to see if he was chilling out but there was nothing.  I even checked the freezer, you know, just in case.  I questioned Mystical Roo.  Had he taken the little yellow chopping board to work and not brought it home?  Mystical Roo denied any knowledge of the little yellow chopping board and I think he was confused as to why I was so concerned about it.  Poor little yellow chopping board.  Out there on his own.  But more frustratingly I just couldn't understand where he'd disappeared to.  And that's when I saw it.  At the back of the cupboard where we store our pots and pans, the back panel had started to come away.  And at the bottom right hand corner there was a gap.  A little yellow chopping board sized gap?  Possibly.  I peered in and wondered what might have disappeared through this hole.  Was the little yellow chopping board stuck in the wall?  Was that the answer to it's mysterious disappearance?  Well, no.  Actually, I found the little yellow chopping board hiding underneath a large frying pan that normally only comes camping with us.  An anticlimax I know but imagine my relief at finding my little yellow chopping board!  And he'd been hiding under a frying pan all along.  I've since returned him to the safe community of his fellow chopping boards.  And shifted them all away from the random hole at the back of the cupboard.  Who knows what's down there.  What might have gone in there.  What might come back out of there.  For the time being I'm leaving it well alone.  Never trust a random hole!