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What is Fibromyalgia and What Causes Fibromyalgia
Debra, interesting connection. I ran daily and sometimes two or more times daily, it was the way I cleared my head, energized myself and thought kept care of my body. BUT I am young, I have stopped running and now speed walk, I feel the impact ...
katiem2, on 08/16/2016
What is Fibromyalgia and What Causes Fibromyalgia
frankbeswick, Indeed for every cause there is an effect
katiem2, on 08/16/2016
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
I had not heard of this. TY
Veronica, on 08/16/2016
Baby Owl and The Vulture
We hear owls but rarely see them. What fun to see the journal of your owls! The desert habitat is so beautiful.
Susan, on 08/16/2016
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
One plant once cultivated in the Celtic regions of the British Isles is Potentilla anserina [sometimes known as Argentina anserina], silverweed. In the past Irish,Scots, Welsh and South Western British ate the roots of the cultivated variety, ...
frankbeswick, on 08/16/2016
Real Ale Pubs and Bars in Coventry, England
Do the pubs that promote real ale also sell genuine cider?
frankbeswick, on 08/16/2016
Real Ale Pubs and Bars in Coventry, England
Cistercians are monks under the Benedictine vow of stability that binds them to a specific monastery unless there is good reason to move. Friars are like monks, but are mendicant, meaning they are more mobile than monks are. Cistercians never ...
frankbeswick, on 08/16/2016
Real Ale Pubs and Bars in Coventry, England
Many think that Godiva rode through Coventry without her veil and badges of office. This would be as bad as riding naked through the streets.
There is almost certainly an overlap between the pagan associations and an actual event re Godifu the ...
Veronica, on 08/16/2016
Real Ale Pubs and Bars in Coventry, England
Cistercians were not friars, they were monks. Friars and monks are different. White friars were Carmelites.
I don't see Godiva's ride as infamous, despite what the article says. Consider, Coventry was sacred to the goddess Coventina in pagan ...
frankbeswick, on 08/15/2016
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
It is early for apples. To be ready they should come off easily in your hand when you lift and twist them, otherwise they will not have fully developed their sugar content.
Some blackberries are ready, but only the first ones. Bear in mind ...
frankbeswick, on 08/15/2016
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
They used food that was readily available. They had to.
Even now, yesterday we foraged for apples and I am going to make apple sauce with that. Today we have picked 7lbs of rhubarb I am going to preserve that tomorrow. I am committed to using ...
Veronica, on 08/15/2016
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
More background. The recipe uses juniper berries, the great advantage of which for foragers is that juniper grows on a wide range of soils and often grows in moorland or mountain,so it is a forager's staple, easily available. The variety of ...
frankbeswick, on 08/15/2016
Real Ale Pubs and Bars in Coventry, England
These look like lovely places. The old windmill especially and also Whitefriars Olde Ales House seem very olde and traditional. The term Whitefriars would suggest a Cistercian House somewhere close perhaps ?
Veronica, on 08/15/2016
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
The Irish had to be canny with food because of their poverty.
Veronica, on 08/15/2016
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
A bit of background here. Many western Irish farmers kept or still keep store cattle, which were bought when just past the calf stage, and then they were kept in fields to be sold on when grown to the owners of richer lands to the East,so the ...
frankbeswick, on 08/15/2016