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Pathways to God
Thank you! Irish druids seem nature-friendly to me as a woody plant-loving arborist ;-D. Would it have mattered to a dying Irish druid which reincarnation, animal or human sentient? (Would an Irish druid ever have reincarnated as a plant ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
The Garden Awakening
Thank you! English Wikipedia correlates the place name Limerick with a west-Ireland city and with a west-Ireland county. Did your father's maternal line live in Limerick city or Limerick county or both? Does Veronica favor Limerick city or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
Jessie Marion King - A Versatile Artist and Educator
Thank you for the end-of-wizzley three links! But the Vintage Books link gives me the immediate and the try-again messages that "The connection has timed out. The server at vintagebooks.canalblog.com is taking too long to respond" and "Problem ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
Thank you for the link! The Bicycle riding and mobile phones subheading, as next-to-last bicycle road rule and safety component, advises that "To keep yourself and other road users safe your full attention is needed when riding. Holding a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
Walking on the Lleyn
It's interesting that Traeth Lafan is Anglicized as Lafan Sands. English Wiktionary links Welsh traeth ("beach") to Breton traezh ("sand"), Cornish treth ("beach, sand, seashore") and Irish trácht ("beach, strand"). Might Traeth Lafan not ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
Yep. "When you ride a bicycle or an electric powered wheeled recreational device or a personal mobility device like a rideable, you must wear an Australian Standard (AS) approved bicycle helmet. You must securely fit and fasten it. An approved ...
Jo_Murphy, on 03/22/2024
As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently
That's so protective against immediate or painful death and against incapacitating injury that Australia requires helmets. Such is not the case in some Unitedstatesian states. For example, Illinois, Iowa, and New Hampshire lack such ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
When Christmas was cancelled
So fruit and meat mince pie is a vanished tradition commercially! Is it that mixed-mince pie looks, smells, tastes, textures less appetizingly than mince pie with just fruit or with just meat?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
Jessie Marion King - A Versatile Artist and Educator
The opening sentences to your introduction advise us that "Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) was one of the most versatile and productive Scottish artists of all time. She lived and established a career in times when the feminist movement was still ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2024
How to spot a spammer
"Spammers have commercial interest. They want to profit themselves, no matter if they harm you (e.g., block your webpage). Trolls relieve their frustrations by putting you in a bad mood, so you feel even worse than them. Vandals just enjoy ...
Jo_Murphy, on 03/22/2024
Walking on the Lleyn
Yes. When driving to Wales to see my daughter we get a good view of the L a f a n sands . The separation of letters is due to the spell checker.
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2024
The Garden Awakening
Veronica loves Limerick, which was where Dad's mother's family lived, but I prefer the North West, which is where I spent a year.
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2024
Pathways to God
Reincarnation as human or animal was a belief of Irish druids.
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2024
Eat Like a Fish: a Review
I have heard of someone surnames pitcher, but never met her.
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2024
When Christmas was cancelled
In have never heard of traditional meat and fruit mince being produced anywhere.
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2024

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