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Unleash Your Child's Green Thumb With Grow Box Gardening

I learned something neŵ recentlyThat peas sown late are vulnerable to high temperatures. I lost some of my pea crop in Britain's succession of heat waves . Still we got some usable peas to have with the sunday roast.

frankbeswick, on 07/28/2025

Pilgrimage. A review

The descent of that rock strewn mountain path is harder than the ascent, as is the case with many peaks. The three of the climbers spoke in English. Patricia and her husband are fluent Gaelic speakers, it is their first language, by choice, but ...

frankbeswick, on 07/26/2025

Pilgrimage. A review

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question. Your answer advises us of Maureen, her cousin and her cousin's husband ascending Croagh Patrick. How was the descent? (Would your wife and her cousin and her ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/26/2025

Art Contest with Collectible Coins

The fourth subheading, The Different Versions of the Medallions, in its second paragraph advises us that "The medallions are minted in fine silver, and in pure gold. They are also minted in fine silver gilded with gold selectively, making for ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/26/2025

Pilgrimage. A review

She and her cousin, an Irish woman, chose good boots, but the cousin's husband went up unshod. They were ascending Croagh Patrick.

frankbeswick, on 07/25/2025

Film Review of Little Miss Marker: Shirley Temple in 1934 Drama as Marker for a Bet in Horse Racing

This realistic film calls for a remake! But who would take Shirley Temple's "old-soul" youngster role?

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2025

Book Review: Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson

The Hubble telescope achieves such informative images! Does it do anything so mundane as deliver us imaged space debris and trash? (I worry about space debris and trash weighing so much that they work their way through the finger-like workings ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2025

Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand

This book has such clear, useful images and information! Wouldn't it be wondrously wonderful for authors Chu, Paech and Waegand to wend their ways through a follow-up work?

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2025

The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon, on Baroque Musician Agostino Steffani: Music Mystery Review

Donna Leon did not have a Guido Brunetti for 2025 even as she perhaps does have one for 2026. Wouldn't it work wonderfully, wondrously for Caterina Pellegrini to wend her way into the next Brunetti?

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2025

Solar Eclipse: Awesome, Yet Dangerous

Your second subheading, Solar eclipse dangers, advises us in its first paragraph that "Never look directly at the sun, it can cause eye damage and possibly blindness. Even in its partially screened lighting the sun still poses a danger." Your ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2025

Pilgrimage. A review

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question. Your wife did one of the Irish walks! Did Maureen wear whatever footwear delivered her the most comfort or does a walk demand a certain kind of footwear -- ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2025

Pilgrimage. A review

Yes, there are pilgrimages to Knock. But walking to Knock is rare, coach and air travel are the preferred ways. The Irish save walking for Croagh Patrick, which is 9ft done barefoot, though Maureen did not go barefoot when she did it. But Lough ...

frankbeswick, on 07/24/2025

Ngwayir (Pseudocheirus peregrinus occidentalis): Ringtail Possum of West Australia

So carrots attend to ngwayir appetites in captivity and domestication. Why do their captors and domesticators deem healthy but hard-chew carrots such a delectable delight? My feline sentient Gusty always flicked away any carrots. Might it have ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/24/2025

Owston's Banded Palm Civets (Chrotogale owstoni): Ringtails of China, Laos, and Vietnam

The module after the sixth image, of the Black-River habitat of Owston's palm civets, advises us that "Owston’s banded palm civets do not pursue vertebrates even though in captivity and domestication they readily ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/24/2025

Pilgrimage. A review

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question. In another direction, albeit related to pilgrimages and relics, is a Marian site such as Knock -- one of my favorites because of its silent manifestation -- ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 07/24/2025