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The third paragraph to the second subheading, Memorable gardens, advises us that "Some of the gardens are small, in tribute to the working class gardeners who made the most of their paved back yards in the industrial slums of British cities, the sort of place where I grew up for the first five years of my life. Some of these gardens are back to back, in memory of the worst kind of housing abolished in the nineteenth century."

What was the housing replaced with and where were the residents relocated?

Ì have not heard it.

I don't know whether Thomas changed his stance.

No. There was until a few years ago a patch of permanent snow in highland Scotland, but I believe that it melted.

It is not susceptible to disease.

No.prince's Andrew and William do notbsitbinntheblords.

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English Wikipedia indicates, in its article on Life peer, that "With the exception of the Dukedom of Edinburgh awarded for life to Prince Edward in 2023, all life peerages conferred since 2009 have been created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 with the rank of baron and entitle their holders to sit and vote in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as age and citizenship."

Is Prince Edward an exception in not sitting and voting in the House of Lords, in numbering among hereditary peers (additionally obtaining life peerage) and/or in receiving a duke-ly not a baronial rank?

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That cricket bat willow grows in such a restricted area intrigues me. Is it basically disease- and pest-free?

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English Wikipedia, in its article Thomas Stevenson (Jul 22, 1818-May 8, 1887), describes the latter as "initially" disappointed by son Robert Louis (Nov 13, 1850-Dec 3, 1894) electing literature over engineering and law.

Is it known whether Thomas might have modified that anti-writing stance?

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Online sources associate sea-level rise with warmer water temperatures that bring about water expansion beyond their original containment, whereby causing water to go the only way possible: upward.

They correlate apparent -- not actual -- sea-level decrease with land-level rise, the latter developing from land freed from glacier and ice sheets. They give the example of Scandinavia.

Is there any part of the British Isles so cold as to have glacial and ice sheets to melt?

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So everybody already knows not only the date but also the location of the next Tatton show: Tatton Park in 2027.

(So Unitedstatesians still might say the 20th-centuryism: be there or be square! Would that ever have been a British Isles-er saying?)

Thank you for apprising me of the Grimm Brothers' The fisherman and his wife fairy tale.

The English translation by D.L. Ashliman does not translate the phrase "Mandje! Mandje! Timpe Te!" from the fisherman invoking "Mandje! Mandje! Timpe Te! Flounder, flounder, in the sea! My wife, my wife Ilsebill, Wants not, wants not, what I will."

What is the language and what is the meaning of that first line?

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The University of Pittsburgh has The fisherman and his wife available online. It includes the note that "The Grimms' source for this tale, recorded in wonderfully simple, but poetic Low German, was the romantic painter Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810). In 1806 Runge sent a manuscript of this tale to the publisher of Achim von Arnim's and Clemens Brentano's collection of folk poetry Des Knaben Wunderhorn. In 1809 the manuscript was made available to the Grimm brothers, and they included the tale in the first edition (and -- with stylistic and dialect variations -- all succeeding editions) of their Kinder- und Hausmärchen. A somewhat different version of Runge's manuscript also found its way to Johann Gustav Büsching, who published the tale as no. 58 in his Volks-Sagen, Märchen und Legenden (Leipzig: Carl Heinrich Reclam, 1812), pp. 258-266. Büsching's work appeared before the Grimm's collection, which was also published in 1812."

English Wikipedia indicates a poetry interest by Philipp Otto Runge (July 23, 1777-Dec. 2, 1810) even as there is nothing anywhere about a short-story interest or a short-story submission.

Is the Runge involvement something known or not-so-well known or unknown?

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Online sources equate the rest of the phrase, pazi no malo, with no malo as "well a little." Is that a literal translation?

I should have written 2027 the show in 2027 will be well advertised.