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The Gardeners' Foe: dealing with slugs
Thank you!
Dorling Kindersley made Fungi: Discover the science and secrets behind the world of mushrooms by Lynne Boddy and Ali Ashby this year.
How might you feel about fungi in your mulch?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
The Mystery of Evil
The first paragraph to the last subheading, Humanity's role, advises us that "Christians believe that God is calling them to be co-workers with him in his work."
What might a philosopher opine instead?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
The Beauty and the Beast
Please accept my apologies if I ask this question twice in very quick order even as the computer acted as if I asked my question already signed out ;-{!
English Wikipedia associates The snake prince with the Panchatantra (from Sanskrit ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
The Beauty and the Beast
Thank you!
English Wikipedia associates The snake prince with a similar story conserved in the Panchatantra (from Sanskrit पञ्चतन्त्र, from पञ्च, “five” and तन्त्र, "treatises") from 200 BCE.
The aforementioned collection drew upon earlier ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
Dick Whittington and His Cat
That last image intrigues me.
Might you have any idea as to what kind of feline sentient nestles within the Whittington hand?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
Are you asking 'What are they doing in the habitat' or 'How are they doing?"
I guess travellers introduced them. But as far as the question how are they doing? Extremely well I would say. I see them everywhere. I am writing to my friend Dan to ...
Jo_Murphy, on 03/14/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The image leftward of your title appears to be a painted illustration of a monarch butterfly.
That species has been in the Hawaiian islands since about 1850, soon after non-Hawaiian residents and traders introduced such non-native host plants ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Thank you for the end-of-article links.
Those links assisted my associating Dick Whittington images with their artists.
The cursor drew up no artist attributions.
But your links encourage me to group the images as follows:
1. leftward of ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
Edith Piaf : France's Greatest Diva
That sums it up. "It is intended to be long-lasting, versatile, affordable, and widely accessible. Its ubiquity is such that it is often referred to as the "LBD". Interesting hey?
Jo_Murphy, on 03/14/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
Yes. That would be about it. Most times, the people come back home, though.
Jo_Murphy, on 03/14/2024
Edith Piaf : France's Greatest Diva
The first paragraph to the second subheading, Turbulent Life From start to finish, considers that "A nightclub owner Louis Leplée, discovered Piaf singing in the streets in 1935. He had a club called Le Gerny off the Champs-Élysées. She took ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
The Beauty and the Beast
Thank you!
Your explanation as to how you feature your beauty and beast-counterpart titles helps me in that it informs me of another way, other ways by which information is ordered.
My alphabetical or reverse-alphabetical way matters as a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
Thank you!
That's so interesting about First Nations People nomadizing the Land Down Under.
So that means that the children might begin, continue and complete one schooling year in (how many?) different places, correct?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
Dick Whittington and His Cat
Yes, I did know that the fairy tale Dick Whittington and His Cat draws upon actual events and people.
The successive rules from Edward I through Henry VI, from the 13th through the 15th centuries interest me.
During that time period is the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
Thank you for your previous comment that "No, if you dig a bit in the history of harp. It's originally made of bow, so it connects different aspects. It can also connect giants and ordinary folk. Music is above that" in answer to my previous ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2024