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  • Ants in My Drawers

    Our Compact Edition of the OED doesn’t get much use these days, but Mary needed a magnifier for a class on quilt judging and the OED has one that seemed just about right:

    OED Magnifier Box in drawer
    OED Magnifier Box in drawer

    The magnifier comes in a removable box fitted neatly into the drawer, revealing a surprise underneath:

    OED Magnifier drawer - plastic ant
    OED Magnifier drawer – plastic ant

    A detail view:

    OED Magnifier drawer - plastic ant - detail
    OED Magnifier drawer – plastic ant – detail

    It’s a plastic ant from a bag in the Kiddie Surplus box my Shop Assistant grew up with and a pleasant reminder of long-ago days, carefully placed where only I’d ever see it.

    Of course, it’s still there …