What is this?
I hope this is the most impressive photo of 2025.
I think it is (I do have a new camera and actually will get it out of the box and try to learn it because the computer has started saying things like ‘this file is unsupported’ or, ‘unable to access’. My old camera is over twenty years old and has given sterling service but bits are dropping off, the cover of the port where you put the thingy in, that connects it to the computer, is attached with sticky tape.)
So, (as anyone under 40 begins a sentence) this photo is a bit of a miracle, of a bit of a miracle.
Long term readers (last three weeks or so) know what this is. It is a personal best is this, because this is
oh yes, this is 13, count them, thirteen, toilet roll middles all shoved in one of them. As the immensely discerning among you are able to, er, discern, one of the cardboard tubes has had to be cut in half lengthwise to get it in there and hasn’t been able to go all the way down and, therefore, is sticking out.
Did you discern the sticking out one? Additionally did you discern that it (they? Now there’s a neat grammatical point, is an item in two halves still it, or did it, upon division, become a they? Discuss – but not for long, this time of year porridge gets cold in no time.) or they, are partial and not whole roll middles?
So, (am I looking younger yet?) here is a personal best at the end of the first week in December. There are, after all, still wonders in the world.
Moreover, feel free to join in. I will publish photos of equal or greater similar feats sent as attachments by clicking the link below.
So anyone can join in. (That wasn’t a youthful, give me time to think, I am not on my phone and thinking independently, so, it was explanatory grammar, basically a coordinating conjunction, used, daringly, to stand alone at the head of a paragraph, as it qualifies the preceding column.)
So, (yes that was the youthful one, did you guess?) feel free to join in, while I slog on making Christmas cards, because now the toilet rolls have reached the limit of their stuffability (unless you can prove otherwise) I have no further excuse for not doing so.
So, I’d better stop chatting to you and get on. (Guess, guess, answers on a postcard, please.)
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I am starting this practice, not to set any records but so that they take up less room in the recycling bin. I had been flattening them, but this is better. If I do set any records, I’ll let you know.