I even know a couple of narrowboat-dwellers who moor on the River Lea and are pondering offering their floating home for rent for that big three weeks next summer.
After that, the WRU was pondering offering players such as Warburton, Williams and Halfpenny contracts to remain in Wales rather than see them join players at foreign clubs, such as Racing Metro trio Jamie Roberts, Dan Lydiate and Mike Phillips.
His chancellor, Angela Merkel, ponders offering Edward Snowden asylum.
It remained an inconvenience, certainly, but it also became a strange new neighbor to ponder, offering an unexpected hiccup to the rhythm of the day.
At this time of year many people are planning their holidays, leafing through the Sunday supplements to ponder advertisements offering everything from Andes pony trekking to Zimbabwe big-game viewing.
A thoroughly modern young lady might be found Paxiling herself, Googling her date, Bikramming her body and pondering The Offering.
BLOOMBERG | REUTERS Market Gyrations Could Derail German I.P.O.'s | The up and down of the markets have prompted caution among companies pondering an offering, including Evonik and Osram, two large German industrial companies whose listings might have raised more than $13 billion, the Financial Times reports.
Instead of offering help, or pondering why any 20-year-old is dying with tens of thousands of dollars of debt, all too many attempt to shame the survivors by pointing out they wouldn't be in this financial jam if they had just thought to seek out yet another offering from financial services industry.
As art centers there flourish and offer cutting-edge exhibitions, more and more artists are based in or exhibit in the suburbs and ponder their relationship to Paris — offering a deep critique of the capital's supposedly insular attitude.
"The dress tent is fashioned as a polar weather station and research lab, offering a space to ponder the earth, global warming and glaciers," Lasser said.
Well conceived, and offering a number of ideas to ponder at greater length, "Picturing Architecture: From Space to Place" invites close readings and broadens understanding of the sometimes subtle messages contained in photographs of buildings.
