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The Potato Famine
Barley, rye, Wheaton and ginger are still common
frankbeswick, on 08/22/2024
The Linear Equation and Related Equations and Inequalities
When I started teaching there were two remedial courses, intro algebra and intermediate algebra, which were later called foundation courses because remedial had a bad connotation. They were high school level for students too weak for college ...
blackspanielgallery, on 08/21/2024
The Potato Famine
Thanks to Veronica for the comment below about the aggravatingly untranslated phrase an litir bheag.
The LearnGaelic site with that phrase suggested, per Ronald Black in The Gaelic Otherworld, silverweed as the seventh bread after the first ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
Understanding Plant Names
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Plants may get renamed in the sense of changing from one genus to another or from one species to another.
Might there be any rule about changing the species ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
What is happening when we read
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Your wizzleys/wizzlies mention prose writing, such as your short stories and your unrealized novel about Pontius Pilate. You released a Brexit-related wizzley ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
Who Was Robin Hood?
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So the bodies and the heads of criminals did not decompose into the next-world afterlife together.
Is there a Christian tradition about how such a situation ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite,Cumbria
British schools only get one bank holiday ( start of May )which the schools have to make up by adding a day to a term some time . All other banks holidays are inside school holidays so they are included in those.
British bank ...
Veronica, on 08/21/2024
A British Garden Society
Thank you for your comment below, on Apr 10, 2023, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
The phrase "local council" intrigues me. Is it a community center that interests itself in its surrounding neighborhood?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
Getting Children into Gardening
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That a "thriving" business rents a site intrigues me. Was the site greenhouses-ready or would Medwyn's have built them to their liking?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
The Garden in the Fall
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Potassium acts as a major nutrient in soil fertilizers. Is it applied alone or with other organic-obtained nutrients?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
Essex days; Hylands House and Park
The computer crashed before I commenced another component of my comment below.
The pathway material looks different from the material afront Hylands house and park.
Might that path material be hard-packed soil or some earthy-looking pavement?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
To Dig or Not to Dig; That Is the Question
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Sometimes I mow the tall grass so that it moves downward into natural grassy pathways. That grass nestles nicely above the bare ground even as snakes sometimes ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/21/2024
Surprise at Stonehenge
Daughter or maiden strikes me as the most likely, as why would anyone want to name a castle after a very ordinary flower.
frankbeswick, on 08/21/2024
From tor to shore
The southern Hebrides and part of the North West
frankbeswick, on 08/21/2024
Mousehole to Lamorna: on the South West Coast Path
It could happen, but chicory is not a really popular plant.
frankbeswick, on 08/21/2024