I'm hoping someone can help with a few suggestions! I'm working on a meaningful personal project. My wife and I had a 7-year correspondence long ago, and I'm editing our letters into a book I'll have bound for her birthday. It's been more demanding that I imagined, ballooning into a 400-page beast (even after trimming all the fat and I-had-toast-for-breakfast minutiae). The letters themselves, many serious or romantic, will be interspersed by little random tidbits from our past - just comical asides that don't add up to a whole message. The plan is for each one to have a header in the format of "odds & ends", but I've run out of ideas for every time one of these random inserts appears. I'm also running out of time now and am hoping to send it to the bookbinder in 24 hours. It doesn't always have to be synonymous with "stuff", but I'm looking for pairings. Things or expressions that always go together. I came up empty on Google, so I was hoping some creative minds here might kindly assist me. This is what I have so far, but my ideas have sputtered out: Bits & Bobs Flotsam & Jetsam This & That Dribs & Drabs Hither & Thither Ohh & Aah Nuts & Bolts Sturm & Drang There are variants, for instance...the header for a brief anecdote about some skunks is Scratch & Sniff; others that makes sense in context are Rinse & Repeat and Rough & Tumble. So, anyway, anything in this vein, no matter how random it may seem (but preferably somewhat common!) would be much appreciated.
Perhaps a bit more abstracted and oblique as references with the respect to the content of the letters, but... Ham & Cheese Cats & Dogs Home & Away Town & Country Meat & Veg Car & Driver Hill & Dale
This & That Ups & Downs Ins & Outs Black & White Now & Then Me & You His & Hers When & Where (variations available also, Who & How etc) Day & Night Right & Wrong Left & Right The Power & The Glory (if you're open to more than single-word pairings)
