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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
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The first paragraph to the first subheading, Capitalising on a natural love of the land, advises us that "The percentage of students indigenous to this land can vary from around 75% - 85% depending on how people travel."
How does "how people ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
10 Symbols in Jack and the Beanstalk
The sixth symbol, Oven, configures hellish, regressive, womb-like associations.
Is it possible that in a way it joins your transformational symbols?
What moves in one way, such as raw flour or raw meat, moves out another way respectively as ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/12/2024
The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk
Spelling error, probably thevspell checker. In the previous response the word there is wronglynwritten as beer. Sorry.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
The Carneddau Ridge: Wales' great ridge walk
Carnedd is a kind of hill, I do not think that beer is anything other than a lettrer group. Au is a plural suffix.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
Restoration at Kew Gardens: the temperate house
Probably. The American air force fed well and were generous. My father was very grateful.
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
The Summer Isles: a book review
None as dangerous as the three that you have mentioned, but Cape Wrath in North West Scotland is hard in bad conditions. The Goodwin Sands off Kent a mass of drowned lands onto which ships have been storm driven, and the coast of Cornwall are ...
frankbeswick, on 03/12/2024
Organic Gardening - Cunnamulla Style
The first one you mention is mine alone. It is a photo of a painting.
I'll get back to you about the rest. Jo
Jo_Murphy, on 03/11/2024
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