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Did you know that there are some words that are spelt the same forwards or backwards? A couple of examples are dad or noon. These are called palindrome’s. A palindrome can also refer to a verse, sentence or number that is the same spelt forwards or backwards – would you ever believe that a phrase

In the last article TPP pondered over the random thought of “If you were a book, what would your title be?“. Today we ponder a saying that is essentially the opposite of that random thought: Never judge a book by it’s cover also known as: Don’t judge a book by it’s cover This comes from

Today is a quick one and comes from the random thought department. TPP saw the following comment recently: If you were a book, what would your title be? Unknown Why should you ponder on this… well the title for a book is very important, it gives the prospective reader a very good idea of what

And talking about “a bear (or was it a bare) roaming the woods“… have you heard the saying “can’t see the wood for the trees”? In some cases people use forest instead of wood i.e “can’t see the forest for the trees”. Where did the saying come from and what does it mean? First off,

Today TPP explores words that sound very similar but are spelt differently and mean different things. Why you ask… well it makes a very good pondering topic because the English language that can very confusing sometimes… especially if it is not your first language! Take for example the words beer, bear or bare – all

And while pondering on moon topics – over the years, many a parent has told an inquisitive child that moon is made of cheese and that child, when grown, has passed this onto their own children. This “legend” has ben passed down over many generations, but have you ever wondered why people say the moon

While pondering on the last topic of an orange coloured moon, TPP remembered the saying “once in a blue moon”. Now most of you will have heard of this saying, but how many of you actually know what it means? For those of you who don’t know – the short answer is the saying relates

This morning TPP woke around 5am and looked out the bedroom window to see an amazing orange moon – never seen one like it before. Now, maybe living in the country made the scene look even better as there was no urban lighting to spoil it, but no matter what, it was truly a site

While TPP was chatting to someone today there was a small distraction. Once the distraction was over the conversation was started by the other person saying “Gosh that has made me lose my train of thought”. Now “lose my train of thought” was a sentence that TPP had not heard in a long time! What

Today TPP was talking with someone who was in a different country. This person was stuck inside because it was an overcast, rainy, chilly day. But TPP was enjoying a beautiful, cloudless, hot, sunny day. There was huge contrast in temperatures and weather conditions between the two countries. For TPP, who had not long come