An odd phenomenon

I heard a nice expression on Woman's Hour today: 'benign senile forgetfulness' which apparently is not a sign of dementia. So now we have a name for it.

Hmm...not sure about the 'senile' bit!

Speak for yourself, Ana. Could call it 'pre-senile' or 'juvenile'?

know 'senile' is the correct word, it's just that at its very mention some people assume 'away with the fairies and possibly dribbling'...

I am definitely not dribbling Ana and only a bit forgetful. Some day I am almost coherent

Days not day - I'm cracking up !

Tangled jewellery, clothes going awol, I'm having such fun reading all this. Being new to GN I just wanted to say you've brightened my day! I often wondered why three pairs of socks go into the washer and only five come out, now I know!

hildajennij. I've just found an odd sock in my pile of ironing .. if you're missing a blue one it could be here!

Crafting I have several odd sock, so does DH and we both do the washing. They could well be scattered all across the kingdom or be off into the twighlight zone, who knows? Do you ever put something down in one place and find it somewhere completely different the next time you want it? This happens all the time here.

Hildajen, we have a whole bagful of odd socks in the airing cupboard, could some of them be yours? Over the years I have thrown away enough odd socks to stock the Sock Shop over and over.

Put them in a jiffy bag and send them to the Budongo Trail chimp house at Edinburgh Zoo.The keepers enrich their lives by hiding their food in old socks, T-shirts, pillow cases etc so that they have to work a bit harder to find and extract it. They are fed at random times, too, and the rest of their food is not presented to them in a nice tidy bowl but scattered among the bushes in their enclosure. In the wild they would spend a lot of their time searching for little bits of food, so it makes it more natural for them.

Holes in socks quite acceptable!

This link is about Budongo Trail Chimp enclosure and the Budongo Conservation Field Station in Africa which is supported through Zoo gate money

Fifty years ago, there were probably a million chimpanzees living in Africa. Today, chimpanzees are an endangered species, with as few as 150,000 left in the wild.

Well fancy that! there is a use for everything!

They get all my clearing out stuff! Things don't last very long under their inquisitive fingers and teeth, but it gives a bit more use before they disintegrate completely.

Apparently they were very keen on an old bit of blanket that they were given, fighting over who was going to sit on it. It made me wonder what else I have lurking in the back of the wardrobe. Somewhere I still have the blankets that were replaced by duvets but kept "in case"

Another primate lover Elegran nice to meet you.

For my wedding anniversary my DH bought me a brick with my name on it which was set in a path at Monkey World in Dorset. It's a lovely feeling to know my grandchildren may walk along that path one day and know their Nan loved animals as well as them.