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General everyday questions by The Pondering Paw to get your mind active by looking at, or questioning, many varied and random topics.

Birthday lunch

Family’s!

Yesterday TPP had lunch with an in-law family member who was having one of those significant “0” birthdays. This family member lives in a different country and TPP does not see them much at all, so lunch was a rare chance to catch up, reminisce and make some new memories! But the saying “you can

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Drawing of a happy yellow sun

Those Healing Rays

Earlier today TPP stepped outside for a few minutes to enjoy the warmth and energising feeling of the beautiful sunny day – a totally rejuvenating few minutes… nothing like a bit of sunshine on your face and skin to make you feel better! In a previous pondering “A Little Ray of Sunshine” TPP talked about

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Many hot air balloons floating in a clear blue sky

Flying Balloons

TPP had an unusual coincidence this morning. The last two ponderings were about balloons – the first was about a balloon being fully inflated when only half full and the second covered some balloon fun facts. What has this to do with an unusual coincidence you ask… well what should TPP see this morning but

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Bunch of different coloured balloons

And Talking Of Balloons…

In the last pondering we covered how a half filled balloon was still completely full… well today we look at some fun facts about balloons. Below is a list of a few fun facts that TPP found while looking into this subject: Your homework for today is to ponder these fun facts about balloons –

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Red balloon full of air

Balloons

Today’s ponderings is a quick one and comes from a random comment made by someone to TPP when discussing how full something appeared to be. The comment was: Did you know that even when a balloon is half inflated it is still completely full. Anon What they meant by this is that when you blow

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Jar of peanut butter

What Is Arachibutyrophobia?

In the last ponderings we covered being afraid on clowns. Today we take a look at a another fear which is rather unusual – the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth, otherwise known as Arachibutyrophobia. Did you even know there was such a fear? Nope, neither did TPP – amazing

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Young magician holding up a ball

Circus Act

The topic of the last ponderings was running away to join the circus (or whatever it may be for you). Well this got TPP back to pondering on all of the different acts within a circus: Just to name a few. A great place to check out a more comprehensive list is the The History

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Happy elephant standing in from of a circus tent

Run Away To Join The Circus

Many moons ago when TPP was young there was a lot of time spent day dreaming about what would it be like to running away to join the circus. This was never more so than when things were not going so well and life was tough. Some of the ponderings included… Like many a person

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Clean road in a forest after rain

Cleansing Rain

This morning TPP woke up to a rainy morning but by 10am the rain had cleared and the clouds were lifting, then by midday the sun was starting to poke through the clouds. The start to the day looked far more rain soaked than the reality – there had only been about 5mm of rain,

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