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Walking on the Lleyn

Thank you! The History Points site describes Traeth Lafan, with Snowdonia-sourced freshwatered streams, as an important wildlife habitat for golden eye and red-breasted mergansers as well as for the British Isles' largest-gathering moulting ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024

The Garden Awakening

Thank you! So west Ireland appeals to you and to your sister. Does that mean any county anywhere in western Ireland or would there be preferences for certain counties over others?

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024

Pathways to God

Thank you! Considering Irish among languages such as English, Greek and Latin in which you pray called to mind the film Róise & Frank, in which the actors communicate in Gaelic. The aforementioned film concerns a widow whose husband comes back ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024

Eat Like a Fish: a Review

Thank you! English Wiktionary considers the fish pilchard of unknown origin. The Oxford English Dictionary correlates its use since an earliest date of 1407. Some online sources define the earliest spellings pilchar, pilcher and pylcher as ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024

A Woman Alone: Decades Living in a Ruined Village

When the beach was deshingled.

frankbeswick, on 03/21/2024

A Walk With my Father:

It follows the U K pattern.

frankbeswick, on 03/21/2024

A Woman Alone: Decades Living in a Ruined Village

The first two sentences to your introduction advise us that "You cannot now visit Hallsands, though there is a viewing platform, for the sea still eats away at the shore where the fishing village once stood. But the name lives on, a testimony to ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024

A Visit to Lisbon

UK , but his wife has dual nationality

frankbeswick, on 03/21/2024

A Line of Scandalous Women

Thanks for telling me I wrote levirate l e v I r a t e.

frankbeswick, on 03/21/2024

A Day at the Poynton Show

A fanciful species

frankbeswick, on 03/21/2024

A Walk With my Father:

Thank you! English Wikipedia cautions that British Overseas Territories, Isle of Man, Jersey and Northern Ireland follow road-numbering schemes different from the mainland system. Does, for example, Northern Ireland's road-numbering scheme ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024

As We Age - We React to Life's Challenges Differently

Interesting. I just looked at the real difference between a baseball team and a dad team. I would have thought theat a Baseball would have been more expensive but the reverse is true.

Jo_Murphy, on 03/21/2024

A Visit to Lisbon

The first paragraph to the first subheading, First encounters with Lisbon, considers that "Over the last three years we have developed family connections with Portugal, as my eldest son, Andrew, married a Portuguese woman and I now have a ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024

A Line of Scandalous Women

Thank you! Online sources correlate "levitate" with ascending without physical support to float in, move through air. Did the spell checker, ;-{ without your consent or knowledge ;-{, displace your perhaps intended "levirate"? English ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024

A Day at the Poynton Show

Thank you! The first paragraph to the first subheading, The display, advises us that "Take a look at the picture of the display, and you will see a butterfly made from tomatoes, bits of cauliflower, beans, potatoes and tomatoes, floral art ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2024