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Old and Traditional Recipes of Lancashire, England

There are three varieties of Lancashire cheese. Young Lancashire; mature, tasty Lancashire; and crumbly Lancashire. The first two can be made by traditional methods, but the third and the youngest variety of the trio is made by modern cheese ...

frankbeswick, on 09/10/2015

A limn about Lymm

Also Frank take a look at the ancient stone underneath the monument. That is sandstone and a very very old installation.

Veronica, on 09/10/2015

A limn about Lymm

Indeed but as I am unsure of the origins I did not wish to specify. The site as known as Lymm Cross even after te cross had gone and then Queen Victoria's monument is still known as Lymm Cross. Your comment about the Celtic missionaries is a ...

Veronica, on 09/10/2015

A limn about Lymm

You mention the antiquity of the cross. While the age is, as you say, unclear, we must remember that the area around Lymm was converted by Irish missionaries who brought Celtic Christianity, and these monks would have brought their practice of ...

frankbeswick, on 09/10/2015

Ken Druse’s The New Shade Garden: Lush Oasis in the Climate Change Age

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Art7437, on 09/09/2015

Nautical Wind Spinners and Windchimes: Lighthouses

Thank you, blackspanielgallery

CruiseReady, on 09/09/2015

Montsechia vidalii: World-Oldest Flowering Plant From Northeast Spain

Mira, Book or Kindle? Both are nice but oh those photographs!

DerdriuMarriner, on 09/09/2015

Old and Traditional Recipes of Lancashire, England

Today, I was out and saw a snack meal on a menu for a toasted sandwich containing Lancashire cheese and strawberries. I did not choose it but my son did and surprisingly said it was delicious. So there you go toasted Lancashire cheese and ...

Veronica, on 09/09/2015

A limn about Lymm

It is indeed popular for angling; we saw anglers in fact and there was a large sign warning people that they need a rod licence.

Veronica, on 09/09/2015

A limn about Lymm

The farmland around Lymm is rich in greenery, producing winter wheat, barley and grass for dairy cattle. Lymm damn is a popular spot for angling.

frankbeswick, on 09/09/2015

A limn about Lymm

Mira I have added a picture of me in the stocks especially for you. In England, the stocks and pillories were slightly different in that pillories usually included the head and stocks just hands or feet .

Veronica, on 09/09/2015

A limn about Lymm

Thank you, Veronica. I didn't realize that stocks were pillories.

Mira, on 09/09/2015

Part 2 follow up to Jane Austen's house Chawton

Thank you. I too was fascinated by the fact that this wonderful author was pulled along in a donkey cart. I loved that day.

Veronica, on 09/09/2015

A limn about Lymm

Ah the Stocks! The stocks and pillories were two pieces of vertical wood with a wooden bar between them and this wooden bar had holes in where people's hands and feet were locked into. Sometimes there was a space for the head to be locked ...

Veronica, on 09/09/2015

Pretirement

Thanks. An agency contacted me today for a lecturing job. I turned it down. I have enough money and plenty of productive activity to do.

frankbeswick, on 09/09/2015