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Thank you for your comment below, on Jan. 24, 2024, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question Jan. 23, 2024.

Your answer about a river-water source 21 boxes down Nov. 21, 2021, in answer to my previous observation and question Nov. 20, 2021, about Caerleon bath-house water intrigues me.

How might all that water have been moved from its source to its Roman use?

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Receiving the spirit, advises us that "Charismatic churches, who are generally evangelical, place a great emphasis on powerful, often ecstatic experiences, such as the strange gift of peaking in tongues or the ecstatic Toronto blessing, but while the charismatic movement is present in the Roman Catholic Church, there is importance placed on sacraments, in which evangelicals place little emphasis."

Are charismatic Catholics, what with placing "little emphasis: on sacraments, not Mass participants?

Thank you for your comment below, on Jan. 26, 2024, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.

You and fellow eastern-ponders make scrumptious choices from the 12-edibles list.

Unitedstatesian 20th-century fare presented potato skins as kid, young-adult and grown-up sides and snacks.

Sometime this century I stopped hearing about and seeing them. Grocery-store potatoes uniformly tend towards potato-skin sides and snacks unfriendly in their thin skins to baked or fried, buttered or filled potato skins.

Would British Isles-er potato skins be similarly thin-skinned?

Thank you for your comment below, on Feb. 9, 2023, in answer to my previous observation and question Feb. 8, 2023.

The third paragraph in the first subheading, Approaching Retirement Age, advises that "My father, who died in 2004, at 82, spent much of his retirement working for the Catholic Church as a Eucharistic minister, lay reader, charity worker and as an organizer for parish events. A blessed retirement in which he earned nothing to add to his pension, he was happy doing what he loved."

Might it have been possible for your father as a retiree to manage a paid part-time job or another full-time paid job?
Or would retired mean retired from any more paid work?

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

Your answer immediately below that "Spain, which is on the way to Ireland, shows no signs of Egyptian influence, nor is there any strong evidence of there being any Egyptian evangeliizing in Britain. So I think that we can suggest an Egyptian mission to Ireland, but operating in the South and East of that iisle" intrigues me.

Your comment six boxes down, on Mar 5, 2023, mentions that "Spain, which is on the way to Ireland, shows no signs of Egyptian influence, nor is there any strong evidence of there being any Egyptian evangeliizing in Britain. So I think that we can suggest an Egyptian mission to Ireland, but operating in the South and East of that iisle."

Would the eastern stretch be coastal-only stretches from southeast to southwest?

Thank you for your comment below, on Dec. 22, 2023, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question Dec. 21, 2023.

Your comment three boxes down that "I think that he favouredbthe conventional method of hanging. The obscenity of hanging, drawing and quartering fell out of favour a long time before Mill was born. While he accepted the death penalty he was not an enthusiast for it, so he did not write much on it" intrigues me.

Is it known the Mill thinking about alternative punishments to the death penalty?
For example, might he have been for longer or shorter prison sentences?

Thank you for your comment below, on Aug. 14, 2024, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question Aug. 14, 2024.

The second paragraph to the third subheading, Jesus the Christ, alerts us that "Rather than use traditional categories for Jesus, such as Saviour and Lord, Townsend draw on categories drawn from world religions, such as spirit person and shaman."

Is the term "spirit person" different from or synonymous with the term "shaman"?

The film The menu with Ralph Fiennes in the title role begins a gourmet experience with non-soupy oyster appetizers.

Many Unitedstatesians correlate oyster consumption with oyster soup.
Do British Isles-ers do likewise? Or does some other preparation draw them?

Thank you for your comment below, on Feb. 13, 2024, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question Feb. 12, 2024.

Postponing the race is the user-friendliest option for their enthusiasts.

Is there a from-month to-month span in which the boat race is held?

The computer crashed before I completed another component of my observation and question below.

Could the "pure mechanics" of "people who love window-shopping" come at least somewhat from those who are art-lovers and experimental artists and wannabe artists?

Artists engage themselves in debate but with an ever-artistic purpose, without gratuitousness, perhaps unlike those who "on other networks, on the other hand like to exchange opinions and many of them actually log in to argue with others."

Thank you for your comment below, on Jul 15, 2022, in answer to my previous observation Jun 29, 2022.

Your answer in the box immediately below describes John Templeton as "a very unassuming gentleman who did not particularly push himself forwards for attention. He was happy staying mostly in Ireland ( well who would not be ? :) )."

That description fits with what you mention in Belfast, Ireland: Botanical Gardens and with what Frank notes in Rosa Hibernica, the Irish Rose.

What would be more better -- ;-D -- than a wizzley trio about an Irish plant scientist, an Irish rose and two Irish places?

The computer crashed before I completed another component of my comment below.

Natural Bridge domiciles a lovely progression, a lovely succession of year-round vegetational interest.

For example, park trees feature basswood, black cherry, common juniper, hickory, oak, paper birch, prickly ash, quaking aspen, red maple and slippery elm. They inspire healthy air, soil food webs, soils and water.

What additionally is not to like about the preceding colors, shapes and sizes?

My magnolia did indeed survive, and in fact it flowers twice a year

Thanks to Blackspanielgallery, Frank and Veronica for the informative comments and questions about eroding land cascading structures and vehicles into the sea below.

The sea floor must have quite a valuable archaeological collection.

Would there have been archaeological explorations before, during, after the Channel Tunnel construction?

Thank you for your comment below, on Jun 23, 2022, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.

May we revisit your comment 14 boxes down?
Your answer Apr 12, 2017, mentions that "My magnolia tree flowered too soon in the mild weather and I hope it hasn't been damaged by so doing."

Callery pears (Pyrus calleryana) here one year offered their blooms in an early, nice-weather spring. Halfway through that spring, some cold-weather days occurred. The callery pears presented themselves as exactly half blooming canopy, half non-blooming and then as exactly half leafing, half non-leafing.

The next year Callery pears all returned to all-canopy, trunk to tiptop blooming and leafing beautifully. And yet that genus and species generally show themselves quite a bit more fragile and sensitive than magnolia trees.

So your magnolia tree should have showed beautifully, completely, healthfully the next year. Was that indeed the case?