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The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk
English Wiktionary associates carneddau with Welsh carn and -edd, respectively for haft, handle, hilt, hoof or for bairn, barrow; and for the noun ending -ment, -ness, -try, -ty.
Might an English rendering be bairn- or barrow-ness?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
Restoration at Kew Gardens: the temperate house
Thank you for your comment Nov. 26, 2019, in answer to my previous question Nov. 25, 2019.
It intrigues me that your father mentioned "can loads of good stew."
Might that stew have been beef?
Unitedstatesians particularly pride themselves on ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
The first and the second images do not project to me a boy enduring hard times even as the boy in the fourth image perhaps does project socioeconomic suffering through his bare feet.
Is it typical in Jack and the beanstalk images for Jack not ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
The Summer Isles: a book review
This month a woman became the first American woman to complete a non-stop, round-the-world boat race.
That race mandated rounding the challenging three capes Horn, Leeuwin and Cape of Good Hope.
Is there any part around the British ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
The Kanata Pony: The Breed That Disappeared
Ruth Bessant in her Kanata becomes registered breed article March 2, 1983, for 100 Mile House Free Press – available through Ancestry’s Newspapers.com site -- advises us that “The name Kanata comes from the Iroquois-Huron word for village which ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
The fourth symbol, Beanstalk, brings up in its last paragraph social climbing.
The terms social climber and social climbing in the United States can be considered insulting even as they defer to a comprehensible human impulse to furnish ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The image leftward of your title and the 10 in-text images intrigue me.
(Perhaps my favorite is the fifth in-text image because it is inspired by my favoritest artist Vincent van Gogh's sunflower series, correct?)
But is the imagery by AI ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
The third symbol, beans, gets me thinking about what gets drunk and eaten in fairy tales.
Is a vegetable such as beans liked for germinable seeds (lodging successively edible, prolific generations) and hardy performances and tasty cold and hot ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/11/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
There are several versions where Jack's father was a wealthy man who was killed and robbed by the giant. These versions try to justify Jack's stealing and have many logical faults. They are hardly of any artistic value. Robert Anning Bell ...
Tolovaj, on 03/10/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
Of course not. We see later how quick they spend gold when they get it.
Tolovaj, on 03/10/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
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Jack and his mother live in a dwelling and manage with dairy products such as milk and perhaps cheese.
Might there be any oral or written ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/09/2024
The end of the Gap Sycamore
That is fantastic!
Jo_Murphy, on 03/09/2024
A Dog Buyer's Guide to Acronyms From AKC to UD
The very first sentence to the first subheading, Registry names and their acronyms, advises us that "In North America, most breeds are registered by the AKC (American Kennel Club), CKC (Canadian Kennel Club) or UKC (United Kennel Club)."
Would ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/09/2024
The Story of Wensleydale
No. The origins are cloaked in mystery. But the monastery of Jervaux was early second millennium, so any cheese making before that date wasnot monastic, so any cheese making before then would have been female, as the Saxon women were responsible ...
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2024
The Shrine that Survived the Reformation
I am not sure, it was a very small well, probably not an important one.
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2024