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Roman Ghosts in Britain
Thank you!
That sounds so interesting and yet so lonely of one Roman ghost in the same space.
Would there be any interpretations as to whether or not he would be looking for someone or something?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Much in Little: food production in a small space
Thank you for your comments March 14, 2020, in answer to my previous, same-day questions.
Elsewhere I considered Unitedstatesian customs of metal cans left decoratively and micronutrient-leachingly in home gardens and in lawns needing building ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Besides the Ocean of Time: reflections on the book
The character Thorfinn Ragnarson gets my attention.
That is such an Icelandic name (and that last name is part of the name of my favorite author, Ragnar Jónasson).
Thorfinn, from Þorfinnr, means "thunder wanderer" (from Old Norse Þor ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Foragers' Wines
The north, the south and the west lawns naturally host wild onions here.
Online sources identify wild onions as fermentable into wild-onion wine.
Might you ever have made your own onion wine or tasted it?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Countdown to Crisis: the looming electoral problems in the United Kingdom
Thank you for your comments March 21, 2023, in answer to my previous, same-day questions.
The last sentence advises us that the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man "make their own laws, but are subject to the British state for international ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Cornwall: England's most south-westerly county
The third paragraph to the first subheading, The fourth identity, advises us that "The ancient Phoenicians even made the long and dangerous journey from Lebanon into the Atlantic to the place that they called the Cassiterides, the Tin Isles, to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Can Christians Believe in Evolution?
Thank you!
How much time time accounts for and how roughly or smoothly that time goes by interest me.
Is time perhaps composed and experienced and gone by differently spiritually than worldly? Might Old Testament time and New Testament time ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Biophilia: the love of nature
Thank you for your comments Aug. 1, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day questions.
You list chickpeas and sweet potatoes as plants that make it to your "bucket-listed" plants that never niche at all in your northwest gardens.
Might they ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Giants in Fairy Tales
The first example, Hop o' my thumb, under the first characteristic, Fast and bloodthirsty, reminds me of the giant there sharing daughters with his (giant-sized) Mrs.
All the daughters should have been giant-sized then, correct?
(That was not ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Cunnamulla - Premium Destination Outback
Thank you!
Echo the echidna images so appealingly.
Might that image be all Jo or part AI and part Jo?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Cunnamulla - Premium Destination Outback
The last sentence to the right of the first in-text image under the third subheading, Parklands in Cunnamulla, alerts us to "a rest stop for free coffee for the weary driver."
What kind of coffee might that be?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Giants in Fairy Tales
These characteristics and their examples are such a mesmerizing read.
(This wizzley as a book or a graphic novel belongs among bestsellers to my way of thinking ;-D!)
Hop o' my thumb concerns us with -- ;-D -- Mr. and Mrs. Giant, correct?
if ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/04/2024
Giants in Fairy Tales
Maybe. After all, we are more and more distant from nature, we are building skyscrapers, flying at high altitudes, and large stuff don't impress us so much as a century ago.
Tolovaj, on 03/03/2024
Giants in Fairy Tales
Yes, there might be. But in general we are scare of them, because they are so huge.
Tolovaj, on 03/03/2024
Rewilding the Isle of the Thundergod
The red squirrel can nest in conifers , but the grey cannot. But greys carry a disease fatal to the native red. The two should as far as possible stay apart. They do not interbreed. Efforts are being made to suppress grey numbers by ...
frankbeswick, on 03/03/2024