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Review: Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory

Very accurate.

frankbeswick, 5 hours ago

A Farm of Your Own

Maybe three hours

frankbeswick, 6 hours ago

Flora of the Tides: edible seaweeds

No. We have never, sampled sea, salt ice cream?

frankbeswick, 6 hours ago

The ' Tatton Show 2024

Theybarbtakennwith care. The balled flowers grow naturally That way..

frankbeswick, 6 hours ago

Review: Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observations and questions. Muscle power can equate with politico-socio-economic power, personally, professionally, publicly. But perhaps also male ruling elites developed because of ...

DerdriuMarriner, 6 hours ago

A Farm of Your Own

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. The automobile and the train trips sound quite welcoming in their variedly beautiful scenery, from inland hills to sea coasts. How long would the train trips ...

DerdriuMarriner, 6 hours ago

Flora of the Tides: edible seaweeds

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. The Halen Môn site has salty recipes. One recipe particularly intrigues me: sea-salt ice cream. Might you and your family ever have had Halen Môn sea-salt ice ...

DerdriuMarriner, 6 hours ago

The ' Tatton Show 2024

Thank you for sharing all the beautiful photographs by your expert-photographer wife and all the fascinating horticultural details. How do the displayers get the balled flowers so perfectly, so photogenically round in Maureen's next-last image?

DerdriuMarriner, 9 hours ago

The Symbolism of the Woods in Fairy Tales

From the top of my head I remember one fairy tale (more like fable) about a mosquito and many about snakes. The mosquito tale was written by our (Slovenian) top writer, so you won't find it, but there are several about snakes by the Brothers ...

Tolovaj, 18 hours ago

The Symbolism of the Woods in Fairy Tales

Thank you for your comments below in answer to my previous observations and questions. Mosquitoes, sharks and snakes count among my least favorite animals. Do any fairy tales develop any of those three as "dark siders"?

DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago

The Symbolism of the Woods in Fairy Tales

You are right. Some animals are more often used as representatives of the evil. In case of Grimms' fairy tales they can be called just 'beasts' (like in Hansel and Gretel or Snow White). This means the wolf, the fox, and the bear being mostly in ...

Tolovaj, 2 days ago

Review: Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory

Strange, I was thinking of this issue this morning.Elites are ways in which powerful groups establish privilege. They tend to be male because to put it simply, males have the muscle. This is immoral, but what can be done about it.

frankbeswick, 2 days ago

Review: Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory

The third paragraph to the first subheading, Bottom-up and top-down narratives, advises us that "His is a view that is more fair to women than the top down view,for as we know elites have tended to be male, and in their history women are seen as ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago

Flora of the Tides: edible seaweeds

Its taste is salty, but it is said to be very pure.

frankbeswick, 3 days ago

Flora of the Tides: edible seaweeds

Thank you for your comment below on Jan. 21, 2021, in answer to my previous observation and question Jan. 20, 2021. Online sources extol Halen Môn ("salt Anglesey" literally) as organic and uncluttered by other ingredients. Might it have a ...

DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago