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The British Flower Show
Keeping the ground free of weeds to prevent cover for insects. Encouraging predators.
frankbeswick, on 04/11/2024
Reflections on the Monarch's Death
She wore predominantly black.
frankbeswick, on 04/11/2024
Safety in British Mountains
We were taught in primary school that he would destroy it by fire, but that is a mere theological opinion. There are no other traditions that I know about. My stance is made clear in my response to Jehovah's witnesses. When they ask me whether I ...
frankbeswick, on 04/11/2024
The British Flower Show
Thank you!
Your last in-text image boosts my fresh garden-vegetable appetite perhaps as much as insect attendees'.
What methods did you employ to control insect attendance, particularly in the Tatton Show problem year?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2024
Reflections on the Monarch's Death
Thank you!
Online sources describe Queen Victoria as donning black every day for 40 years after the death of Prince Albert. Did she don black from head to foot or did she just don something, however major, however minor, black all that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2024
Safety in British Mountains
Thank you!
This is somewhat -- inspired by pre- and post-Flood thoughts -- related, because my question about possible extant, and your answer about non-existent, Biblical traditions of the Ice Age.
Is there any tradition about how God might ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2024
Understanding Sacrament
Nothing is on record from the Last Supper about the last rites.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2024
The afterlife: what Jesus taught and what developed later
Maternal. He served in the First World War. The Limerick ancestry is on the paternal side, via Dad's mother.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2024
Rotating your crops
Low quality wheat and barley. The recipients of the wheat were the landlords.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2024
Christian meditation
No. All masses are equal.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2024
Understanding Sacrament
Thank you!
John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ considered at least communicating "I'm sorry" to God. His Last Supper developed into the weekly Mass(es).
Might anything that He said between the Last Supper and His death be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2024
The afterlife: what Jesus taught and what developed later
Thank you for your comment March 10, 2023, in answer to my previous-day question March 9, 2023.
Is your Calvinist, Presbyterian grandfather maternal or paternal? Is he the grandfather of World War I service and with Limerick biogeography?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2024
Rotating your crops
The first subheading, The need for rotation Lessons from Ireland, considers that "The Irish were being made to grow the crops that were needed to pay rent and stay alive. Their corn went to pay rent, and they needed potatoes to sell to the mass ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2024
Christian meditation
Thank you!
There can be Friday and Saturday evening Masses. Do they have greater or similar import to morning Masses (typically at 7:30 a.m.)?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2024
Reflections on the Monarch's Death
There is no set period of mourning, but three days would be considered reasonable.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2024