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The Resurrection of Jesus

The gospel does not specify the direction in which Jesus was travelling.

frankbeswick, on 05/12/2024

The Royal Horticultural Society

I did my horticultural qualifications with the RHS..

frankbeswick, on 05/12/2024

Key Ideas in Catholicism

The church does well.

frankbeswick, on 05/12/2024

Thinking About Slavery

Scots were serious slave raiders and took many English slaves right up to the Norman period.

frankbeswick, on 05/12/2024

Walled Gardens: a review

I cannot recall seeing the picture. But the plant would have been an import?

frankbeswick, on 05/12/2024

An Island Castle

Orkney does not have any living Norse dialect, but Fair Isle, a remote and isolated isĺe between the two archipelagos, has residual words derived from Norm, a Norse language oncevspokennin the North of the British Isles.

frankbeswick, on 05/12/2024

Who Goes to Heaven

I have never heard of any connection between Kipling the bakers and Rudyard. No connection is advertised

frankbeswick, on 05/12/2024

Facing Chronic Illness in a Christian Way

I do not grow houseplants.

frankbeswick, on 05/12/2024

Messages of Puss in Boots

It's Offterdinger's interpretation.

Tolovaj, on 05/11/2024

Messages of Puss in Boots

Yes, it can. It works in both ways, though.

Tolovaj, on 05/11/2024

Messages of Puss in Boots

Thanks, DerdriuMarriner, for congrats. I have a long list of project with always changing priorities, so I can't promise any time schedule.

Tolovaj, on 05/11/2024

Facing Chronic Illness in a Christian Way

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question. The first paragraph to the first subheading, The situation, advises us that "I am continuing to garden in the local park, where I do Wednesday ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/11/2024

Who Goes to Heaven

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Online sources correlate French fancies with desserts configured by the Mr. Kipling corporation from 1967 onward. Might the Kipling corporation by monikered as ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/11/2024

An Island Castle

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question. The Scandinavian influence in Orkney and Shetland causes me to consider spoken and written languages there. Might Orkney and Shetland have their own ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/11/2024

Walled Gardens: a review

Thank you for your comment below on Jan. 18, 2019, in answer to my previous observations and question. Your bringing up pineapple pits causes me to consider the painting Charles II presented with a pineapple, ca. 1675-1680. That painting either ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/11/2024