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In the last article TPP covered the random word aglet and what it meant (hint – it has something to do with shoelaces). While doing this TPP remembered a word from many moons ago that was mentioned by someone. It was a really weird sounding word and TPP had to go an look up. The

Today’s topic is about a random word that many of you have probably never heard of before – aglet. So what is an aglet? Well, if you look at the end of a shoelace you will see either a piece of plastic or metal. This is is known as an aglet. These are also quite

TPP had something funny happen today… While amongst children playing with some cats and dogs, one of the children looked up at a parent and had a conversation that went like this: Child: “When we go on holiday where does your cat go – will our cat come with us?”Parent: “Well no, the cat does

Today is a quick one – TPP was flicking around some websites and came across the following meme: Why is something sent by a car called a shipment, but something sent by a ship called cargo? Hmmm, that is a totally inane but interesting question. TPP sat for a few moments pondering this and other

The last ponderings covered the rabbit holes we go down sometimes when we think we have a health issue, but you know, sometimes cold feet are just that, cold feet and nothing else! Today we go down a different path about cold feet which is, using the term cold feet for when someone is scared

While sitting working today TPP had really cold feet. At one stage this resulted in a number of activities to warm them back up – some of which probably appeared pretty silly to someone who might just be looking in the window. After warming them and sitting back down to carry on working, TPP started

Today is a quick one… While looking into the saying from the last pondering topic on what thought, thought, TPP saw the following under the heading “weird sayings”: If Cinderella’s shoe fitted perfectly, then why did it fall off? Anonymous Gosh and this is a saying, really… whoever would say that? This totally stumped TPP…

Today while out and about, TPP overheard part of a conversation between a mother and her young son (he was somewhere around 5 or 6) while passing by the two of them. It went like this: Mum: “What were you thinking when you did that?” in a lightly scolding tone of voiceSon: “Dunno, just thought

The last topic was about two sparrows that were flying about. It appeared that they were happy, but were they really – how did you know they were happy? You were then challenged to look out the window, pick something and take your first ponderings about what you saw and ponder it from another aspect,

One thing that helps to get your mind active and become an independent thinker is to question and challenge your current point of view. Like when you see something and think “oh that is just such and such”, maybe what you are actually seeing is very different to your thoughts / opinions. This is where