Hi everyone! I hope you’re well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you want to join in the challenge, you can find the topics for 2024 here, and if you would like to read other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.

Funny Things I’ve Googled

Where do I begin? As a writer of everything from poetry and short fiction to blog posts, such as this and everything in between, I have had to Google many a strange thing.

I once had to research what would happen if we decided to move Venus into a similar orbit around the sun as Earth to cool the planet a bit and make it habitable. That made for an interesting read about how it could be possible, but it’s just as likely that Earth would be flung off into outer space.

For my short fable, The Robin and the Wren, I fell down a rabbit hole, Googling what a dry future earth entirely depopulated by human beings would be like and what it might be like for other animals left behind.

I recently found myself searching for the different meanings behind individual colours for a potential idea I’m working on. I’ve also Googled fascinating things about sleep paralysis, particularly why many people who experience the sleep disorder see and hear similar things in their waking/dream state.

I had to google ‘how to catch a mouse’ a couple of years ago because we saw one darting along the hall one night. We spent hours looking for it, finally cornering it in the kitchen, using Tupperware as a barricade. We made a bed for it in a shoebox with some toilet paper and cotton wool and then googled ‘what to do when you’ve caught a mouse’.

It’s a good job we did Google what to do because we learned that you’re supposed to walk at least a mile from your home and release it, lest it make its way back. So off we popped at 2 am to the woods behind our flat. We walked a mile in and released the mouse beside a large sycamore tree and the stream running through the woods. We left some food for it and its bed and came home.

Speaking of animals…

The funniest/oddest/strangest thing I think I’ve googled was a couple of years ago when I was researching my children’s non-fiction book, The Elephant Book. One of the things that came up was the fact that elephant poo can be used to make paper!

Anyway, that’s post 20 complete. I’m looking forward to reading about all the funny things you’ve all googled.

As always, thanks for reading my word!

Until next time,

George

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