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10.01.2022 Coinneach's Cogitation: A sign of the (Covid19) times I suppose; I had just unpacked my next jigsaw challenge when my attention was caught, not by the puzzle pieces, but by the box! As I pushed the tightly fitting lid onto the base, the sound of escaping air sent my engineering brain off on a tangent. I quickly arrived at a conceptual respirator design, fashioned from the box, and I knew that I'd be able to create my very own respirator if the dreaded lurgy strikes!

06.01.2022 "There is no iceberg. There was an iceberg but it's in a totally different ocean. The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt soon. There is an iceberg but we... didn't hit the iceberg. We hit the iceberg, but the damage will be repaired very shortly. The iceberg is a Chinese iceberg. We are taking on water but every passenger who wants a lifeboat can get a lifeboat, and they are beautiful lifeboats. Look, passengers need to ask nicely for the lifeboats if they want them. We don't have any lifeboats, we're not lifeboat distributors. Passengers should have planned for icebergs and brought their own lifeboats. I really don't think we need that many lifeboats. We have lifeboats and they're supposed to be our lifeboats, not the passengers' lifeboats. The lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship. Nobody could have foreseen the iceberg." See more

03.01.2022 Coinneach's Cogitation: I’ve just been thinking that it’s time to finally lay bare an idea that I’ve been considering, in solitude, over a long number of years. Strangely or, as will become apparent, by design this is something that I’ve never thought much about at home but only during pressing engagements away, either at work, rest or play. Television advertising tries very hard, using cuddly Labrador puppies and cute little children, to convince us that the toilet paper we ...use, their brand of course, must be soft, gentle, thick and absorbent; in fact its use should produce a pleasurable sensation. Such advertising is aimed squarely at the domestic market, specifically via the home engineer who maintains the supply of life’s essential materials. So, as the advertising animation clearly shows, we have a roll of little rectangular sheets each made up of several thinner pieces gently combined to create an end product without which our homes and, indeed, lives would be incomplete. As a change of scene, picture a visit to any non-domestic toilet, be it at work, in a hotel of almost any star rating, or even a public toilet that actually does have a replenished supply, the toilet paper on offer displays only a distant relationship to our idealised domestic norm. It’s a stretch of my imagination to compare the roll of such sheets, often so thin as to be almost transparent, with the aforementioned pleasurable product. In these times of resource conservation, false economies are being made based on the premise that thin toilet paper is saving the planet by reducing consumption of forestry derived products. I firmly believe this stratagem to be flawed, in that it must only succeed if the number of thin sheets used was less than the number of thick sheets replaced. I’m certain that a large slice of the population would agree that, when faced with thin industrial grade paper, the number of sheets used is higher than would be required with the pleasurable domestic version. I find myself using three or four thin sheets at a time to achieve the hygienic objective of not pushing a finger through the flimsy film. If everyone has a similar experience, then the useage of paper must increase rather than decrease. I am a confirmed ‘folder’, a skill that I imagined might be a product of my left brain tendencies but could alternatively be considered to be hereditary since I must have learned it from my mother. I have recently learned that there are such people as ‘scrunchers’, although I can only intuitively appreciate what that means. However, I’m sure that the industrial sheet, even when scrunched, must demonstrate a similar inadequacy, requiring the used of additional sheets to increase the scrunched volume to a suitable capacity. Not everyone will agree with my point of view, but I firmly believe that the jury is still sitting.