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10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack needs to improve his fibancial status to survive. Climbing up (the social ladder) is one way to do that.
Tolovaj, on 03/13/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
I believe both explanations can do in this case.
Tolovaj, on 03/13/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
Thank you for this. We are doing our budget now. Couldn't have provided this list at a better time.
Jo_Murphy, on 03/12/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
Our First Nations People have always been nomadic. Therefore, sometimes they still travel around. The Australian Curriculum has been designed so that the curriculum it consistent across Australia. In Australia we have what is called a "Day 8" ...
Jo_Murphy, on 03/12/2024
The Tetrarch: England's Spotted Wonder
It's interesting that Tetrarch looked black-spotted chestnut when young and white-spotted gray when older.
It's a natural progression when one mulls that black represents all colors in one place and white no colors in that place, correct?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk
Thank you!
So English Wiktionary correctly identifies carnedd with barrow but incorrectly with all else!
But is it possible that Carnedd Ridge invokes handle- or hoof-like profiles?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
The first paragraph to the seventh symbol, Gold, associates that metal with durability (albeit self-lifed), success and wealth even as the second paragraph associates it -- through spending habits? -- with possible insecurity and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
Restoration at Kew Gardens: the temperate house
The last sentence in the first paragraph to the first subheading, The Temperate House, describes Kew Gardens as perhaps "the only botanical garden with its own police force, constables who deal with minor infringements and who perform a patrol ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The third paragraph to the third subheading, Projected image of a sensory garden, considers that "The plants selected for the garden will include many that will attract butterflies and bees."
Sensory gardens get my admiration and respect for ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
Kentucky Derby History: Upset Winners and Unexpected Losers
The third paragraph to the sixth long-shot, Canonero II, 1971, advises us that "As a stallion, he did not get quality mares and had little opportunity to reproduce his brilliance, and was sent back to Venezuela."
Is it known why Canonero II ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Mystery of Evil
The last paragraph to the last subheading, Humanity's role, contains indeed "a grim tale."
Good and healing perhaps may be achieved somewhat in the perpetrators being accountable. They also may be achieved by the undeserving casualties being ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Gardeners' Foe: dealing with slugs
It is a standard beer glass, nothing special about it.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
The Shrine that Survived the Reformation
By accident. We were holidaying in rural South Wales and it was on a local farm.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
The Gardeners' Foe: dealing with slugs
Thank you for your comment April 6, 2023, in answer to my previous question April 5, 2023.
English Wikipedia carries the article Boddingtons Bitter. It displays that beer in a glass alongside a can.
That glass looks distinctive, with a bulge ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Shrine that Survived the Reformation
Thank you!
Perhaps that well no longer exists even as it functioned as an unimportant, "very small well."
Might it become neglected and overgrown? In such case, should it be decommissioned or permitted to merge slowly with the surrounding ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024