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Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

That cricket bat willow (Salix alba caerulea) doesn't encourage growing indoors intrigues me. If only I might do so...!

What might motivate someone to plant cricket bat willow in a conservatory or greenhouse? Would it only be on the research level?

The third paragraph to the first subheading, How the UK is governed, alerts us that "The Conservative vote is mainly southern English."

Why is the Conservative appeal biogeographically centered southward?

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

Balled flowers growing naturally perhaps get a trim from time to time, no? Or might they naturally shed parts growing out of perfectly, photogenically rounded-ness?

The computer crashed before I commenced the other component to my comment yesterday to your comment in answer -- ;-D -- to my previous observation and question.

Your comment identified the Brothers Grimm as including snakes in some fairy tales.

Might you recall which fairy tales?

Very accurate.

Maybe three hours

No. We have never, sampled sea, salt ice cream?

Theybarbtakennwith care. The balled flowers grow naturally That way..

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observations and questions.

Muscle power can equate with politico-socio-economic power, personally, professionally, publicly.

But perhaps also male ruling elites developed because of females doing what they do according to what does not damage the foetus or the newborn. That at the bare minimum makes them vulnerable for 9-plus months!

What might you think of that contribution to male ruling-elite tendencies?

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The automobile and the train trips sound quite welcoming in their variedly beautiful scenery, from inland hills to sea coasts.

How long would the train trips from Carlisle and from northwest England take?

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The Halen Môn site has salty recipes. One recipe particularly intrigues me: sea-salt ice cream.

Might you and your family ever have had Halen Môn sea-salt ice cream?

Thank you for sharing all the beautiful photographs by your expert-photographer wife and all the fascinating horticultural details.

How do the displayers get the balled flowers so perfectly, so photogenically round in Maureen's next-last image?

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The mosquito fable intrigues me. Might I have the name of the Slovenian top writer -- competitive with or second to you ;-D -- and the title of that fable?

From the top of my head I remember one fairy tale (more like fable) about a mosquito and many about snakes. The mosquito tale was written by our (Slovenian) top writer, so you won't find it, but there are several about snakes by the Brothers Grimm.

Thank you for your comments below in answer to my previous observations and questions.

Mosquitoes, sharks and snakes count among my least favorite animals. Do any fairy tales develop any of those three as "dark siders"?