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I love Esquivalience! I wonder how many words started out as mountweasels.

Esquivalience.
I mean to comment on that but procrastinated

What an interesting new word

Esquivalience.

Procrastination or displacement activity are not necessarily bad because all kinds of other tasks can be undertaken and completed whilst putting off the one which needs to be done.

You could find a few days later that the task which you kept putting off never needed to be done at all anyway!

Kittylester- spot on ?!

I convinced myself I was a procrastinator but now think I have just become very lazy and using procrastinating because it sounds better! Right now I’m sitting here on my tablet when I haven’t even washed up the tea dishes which was eaten just after six this evening. I wanted an early night after visiting a very ill family member but can’t do that till the dishes are done!

Grammarretto?

Stalling!!! lol

Why put off till tomorrow what you can leave till the day after?
I actually bought a book about procrastination. It was called DO IT NOW but I never got around to reading it.

Faffing around.

I think the should bring back daybeds where you can lounge about writing you to do list between naps. ?

I have a sign above my desk at work that reads.....

Why do today, what you can put off until tomorrow.

What I am doing at the moment - posting on GN - is my favourite displacement activity.

Am excellent at it
..creep past the housework and go and do my garden!

For those who watched the Only Connect final last week, the answer has to be Esquivalience.

It’s a Mountweazel, dontcha know?

That too, merlot!

Thank you for all the procrastinatory comments. The one I couldn't bring to the forefront of my mind was "displacement activities".

I think my favourite is "doing an Annie" . Are we allowed to call it "being a banana", Annie, or has your new chair/settee sorted the bananas?

It's called, My Husband!

Procrastination is the thief of time baggs ( so get your arse in gear.) ?

When the displacement activity becomes too arduous or boring, is the next thing you do a dis-dis-placement activity?

I suppose another possibility is procreation. On second thoughts, probably more for Msnet than Gnet.

Displacement activity. I do it all the time.

sleeping on his Procrustean bed

Ooooh, I like that word. That reminded me of the Fungus the Bogeyman story (which I loved.) He had a slimy bed, mind you, not a crusty one.

Bogey people only thrive in dark, slimy homes and feel threatened by people on the surface, who like to be clean, warm and dry. The book opens in the Bogey bedroom. "Ooh! What a night that was!" says Fungus. "The bed has almost dried up!" "I know, drear," says his wife, Mildew. "It needs more slime

Sorry. I digress.

It’s called ‘doing an Annie’

It's called sitting in the swivel chair by the desk in the hall looking at GN rather than planting all the new stuff in the very hot garden!

And sipping a cold drink..........very slowly! Having recently try eaten an almond magnum!

Some say that it derives from the Latin "pro cras" - for tomorrow - but the connection with Procrustes "the hammerer", who hammers and stretches metal, is too good to ignore.