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Thank you for thefairytales link below the ending information to the Substack Blogger-alternative subheading.
The first image among the Bluebeard illustrations is by John Austen. The underlying caption mentions, "The key, Madam!"
Might that be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/10/2024
Understanding the divisions of Christianity
The introductory paragraph advises us that "The huge variety of Christian groups sometimes baffles non-Christians, but they fall into broadly Catholic and Protestant, but these are wide categories."
Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City define ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/10/2024
Walking the Long Mynd
Thank you!
English Wikipedia indicates that there's no such thing as a daily all-Welsh newspaper. It lists Y Byd ("the world") as an attempt that never made it because of insufficient funding.
And yet it mentions Welsh-language magazines and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/10/2024
Walking the South Cornish Coast
Your comment Feb. 4, 2022, to my previous, same-day question gives as an example of lost Cornish derivations Roseland, not from the English phrase "land of rose-specied flowers" but as from the Cornish phrase ros lyn for "red lake."
Online ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/10/2024
Current color trends in weddings
The first paragraph to your last subheading, Flowers, advises us that "garlic and thyme were used to protect against evil spirits,"
What herbs were employed to promote good spirits?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/10/2024
Weather-proof your garden
Thank you!
Some Unitedstatesians opt for such liquid fertilizer as compost tea.
Would you ever have used compost tea? If so, would you apply it in the morning or in the evening?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/10/2024
Cybersquatting
The phrase cybersquatting connects -- to my way of thinking ;-D -- in its last two syllables to the film Three days to kill.
Kevin Costner's character domiciles in his Paris apartment briefly every year. One year he finds a family squatting ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/10/2024
Woodsman: a review
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The birch-tree wine in "well-forested" -- ;-D -- Scotland sounds appetizing.
Is it possible to make one's own birch-tree wine from one's own birch trees on one's own property without paperwork or certifying-agency standards?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/10/2024
The Flora of the Shore
Probably., but sapphire gathering is inherently dangerous
frankbeswick, on 02/10/2024
Walking the Long Mynd
Yes, but mainly in West Wales, where the Welsh language is stronger.
frankbeswick, on 02/10/2024
How to create a control society
I think that our present government tries to focus on private initiative and expenditure.
frankbeswick, on 02/10/2024
Woodsman: a review
I had it in Scotland, which is welL forested.,but it is not common.
frankbeswick, on 02/10/2024
Wulfstan of Worcester: a great Anglo-Saxon
I do not know. There could be? He is still revered in Worcester.
frankbeswick, on 02/10/2024
The Potato Growers' Curse
Traditional methods have much to commend them.
frankbeswick, on 02/10/2024
Cinderella: we can all relate with her, can't we?
I think we can find them in all cultures. In Scandinavia there are a lot of stories about boys related to the heath and ashes.
Tolovaj, on 02/09/2024