General everyday questions by The Pondering Paw to get your mind active by looking at, or questioning, many varied and random topics.
The last pondering was about finding something bright and cheerful in your day and allow the goodness of it to give you a wee smile. Well today we are going to explore a little how colour can make a difference to your mood. As you will have guessed by now, TPP likes the colour pink
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The last pondering explored the idea of taking the time to appreciate your surroundings and to find something that is “good or positive” in them. Well, today TPP woke of to a grey, wet day and had to spend a few minutes taking self advice – try to find something to appreciate in the miserable
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One of the things that TPP is about is to get you to actually live life and not just exist from day to day. One of those things that will help is to take a wee bit of time every day to appreciate and be thankful for the things around you – big and small.
Today’s pondering topic come up while TPP was out and about on a daily walk. Being a nice day there were a number of lawns being mown – ah, the lovely smell of a freshly mown lawn on a nice warm day! This smell bought back many memories, including a saying that was heard many
And for your final bread topic for now – no guarantee this is the final bread ponderings! As per a recent pondering article, sliced bread became a commercial reality in the 1920’s with the invention of first machine to cut a full loaf of bread into slices in one go. But, according history books, the
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Following on the last topic of sliced bread – did you know that in January 1943 sliced bread was banned from American bakeries? In 1943 the war was in full flight and the War Foods Administration and the Secretary of Agriculture thought that banning pre-sliced would be a good way to conserve resources – specifically:
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The last few pondering topics have been quite “deep and meaningful”, so today we go for a lighter fun fact topic… Did you know that the concept of sliced bread was invented by Otto Rohwedder from Iowa in the 1920’s. He created the first commercial machine to cut a full loaf of bread into slices
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In looking around for information on the last article about windy days making people and animals more skittish, TPP came across the following quote: “When everything seems to be going against you,remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”– Henry Ford Very inspirational quote to get pondering on! Henry Ford had
The windy day got TPP to pondering on how people and animals appear to be quite skittish on windy days. So TPP decided to have a wee look into this to see if it is a real thing or not. This is what TPP found… There is no definitive answer when it comes to people’s
TPP watched a beautiful sunrise today and got to pondering on the different morning routines we all have. Some of us are natural morning people and others are night owls. Which one you are, will have a big impact on what your routine will be. If you go looking online you will find many different
