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Gardening and climate change
Yes, but they are now frowned on and some users have ceased to use them to save water.
frankbeswick, 3 days ago
How Should We Respond to Islam?
She could, but she would have to return to the church prior to death.
frankbeswick, 3 days ago
How Should We Respond to Islam?
Thank you for your comment below, on Apr 20, 2024, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question Apr 19, 2024.
Queen Noor of Jordan has Christian Science and Episcopalianism in her birth-family background. She maintains her ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Gardening and climate change
Thank you for your comment below, on Dec. 20, 2023, in answer to my previous, previous-day observation and question Dec. 19, 2023.
Do British-Isles-ers and British-Isles businesses on their respective lawns do sprinkler spraying?
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards
The last sentence to your second subheading, Frances Brundage, amazes me. That sentence avers that "she wasn't valued in her homeland, the USA, until she achieved success in Germany."
Her lifespan (Oct. 31, 1854-Jan. 27, 1932) correlates with ...
DerdriuMarriner, 3 days ago
Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Nine styles are equally resonant even as Bouret assumes an imperceptible lead.
The tenth style bears such a thematic difference from the others. Can you guess ...
DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago
Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards
Maybe, but I don't think you need French blood to enjoy Bouret's designs;)
Tolovaj, 6 days ago
On the Edge of the Western Ocean
I have looked up the meanings. Benwisken means haystack peak, because of its pointed summit. Ben bulben means peak of the jaw. It's shape suggests a jaw or beak.
frankbeswick, 6 days ago
On the Edge of the Western Ocean
Ben means mountain or hills, but my knowledge of Gaelic names does not extend so far
frankbeswick, 6 days ago
On the Edge of the Western Ocean
The second paragraph to the first subheading, Rooted in time, advises us of Ben Bulben and Ben Wisken.
What do the two names mean in English?
DerdriuMarriner, 6 days ago
Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
The Germaine Bouret design also appeals to me.
Your account of the egg-ly appearances assured by "religion, magic, natural cycles, and plain child's play" ...
DerdriuMarriner, 6 days ago
On the Edge of the Western Ocean
The ascendancy is the upper class who dominate political and economic life. An ascendancy is not a democratic system. While there may be elected parliaments only a privileged few have a vote.
frankbeswick, 8 days ago
Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards
Interesting observation! Eggs, falling from the bell, somehow being produced inside, by pure boy's action, are artist's idea to fuse religion, magic, natural cycles, and plain child's play in one image. I believe she created a spectacular Easter ...
Tolovaj, 8 days ago
On the Edge of the Western Ocean
The second paragraph to the first subheading, Rooted in time, advises us that "The poet William Butler Yeats was a native of that area, though unlike my impoverished forebears he was from a wealthy ascendancy family."
What is an "ascendancy" ...
DerdriuMarriner, 8 days ago
Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards
That first in-text image of the bell-ringing boy (with the double meaning of getting reprimanded) with the two prank-responding girls charms me.
But where do the eggs come from?
May all the eggs hatch like those from which the three chicks ...
DerdriuMarriner, 9 days ago