General everyday questions by The Pondering Paw to get your mind active by looking at, or questioning, many varied and random topics.
Today’s topic comes from the totally random and useless piece of information file… Did you know that according to the Oxford Dictionary the only word in the English language that ends with “mt” is the word “dreamt”? All other words that end in “mt” are variations of dreamt, such as undreamt. The word dreamt is
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Today’s pondering topic is a very quick one – when it comes to numbers, what sort of person are you? Some people are very particular when it comes to numbers. For example when purchasing a raffle or lottery ticket they will only buy ones with a particular number/s, whereas others will just take the next
TPP heard the song “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers earlier today and figured it would make a good topic to ponder on. For those of you who do not know the song it is about two strangers on a train who start a conversation. One of the strangers is a gambler and the other appears
Continuing on the toe theme from the last article, TPP’s (The Pondering Paw’s) subject for today is feet. Your feet are a great engineering design with 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments that work tireless every day to support your entire body. They also have approximately 250,000 sweat glands
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Today’s one comes from the random file – have you ever just looked at your toes and pondered how they work or what an amazing job they do? These little guys are far more than things you trim, paint pretty colours and cover with socks when putting on shoes. They exist for many reasons: Most
While out for a walk TPP (The Pondering Paw) had the pleasure of watching a hawk in search of lunch in the field next to the path TPP was on. The conditions were blustery so the hawk was fighting nature while zeroing in on his meal. Despite the conditions he made it look it look
Carrying on from the fruit theme in the last pondering article, today we look at the huge variety of fruits you can get around the world. All the way from the humble apple to the zucchini are many weird and wonderful fruits. And yes, the zucchini is technically a fruit – it is actually classified
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Most of us have heard the saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. This has been around for many years – they say it came from the 19th century. With all of the goodies in an apple, such as Vitamin C and phenols, it is not surprising the saying came about. But today,
Today’s one is from the “Aw how cute file”. While out and about today TPP (The Pondering Paw) came across and old lady with a puppy. The contrast in age and stage of live was huge – the old lady in her twilight years and the puppy just starting out. To watch them play together
This is a very simple one – next time you are out for a walk on path take notice of where you walk. Do you… Most will probably answer that they have never thought about it and there is nothing wrong with that – as with all things pondering, there is no right answer. Or
