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The Wild Herds of Britain
The second paragraph to the third subheading, Wild ponies, alerts us that "The Carneddau herd suffered a threat some years ago when heavy snows caused many horse deaths and so farmers had to spend some time refraining from selling the surplus ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
The Rule of the Land: a review
There appears to have been a Gaelic-language feature film released in 2022. It carries the title Róise & Frank.
(It got my attention because of the comic filmability of the episode that you identify in the comment box dated Sep. 4, 2018, in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
The Potato Growers' Curse
Your comment dated July 9, 2016, and down 7 comment boxes associates blight-free, early-treated soil with a one- to two-year wait.
What did yesteryear Irish growers do during that wait? Did they have access to blight-free soils and tubers?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
The Flora of the Shore
The first paragraph to the first subheading, Cliffs, directs us to rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum).
English Wikipedia gives as common names rock samphire, samphire and sea fennel.
English Wiktionary gives as etymology from French Saint ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
The English Woodlands
No. We have no need for such a drink.
frankbeswick, on 02/07/2024
Meat versus vegetables:
We would eat a normal meal.
frankbeswick, on 02/07/2024
How to create a control society
I think that a densifying trend can be detected.
frankbeswick, on 02/07/2024
Creating a lovely garden
I do not know of any such traditions. Sorry.
frankbeswick, on 02/07/2024
Coping with the flood:floating gardens
A long time ago. You would need to go back to the stone age for a more lacustrine landscape in Britain. But there were until recent years more wetlands.
frankbeswick, on 02/07/2024
Alderley Edge: Woods, Wizards and Mines
I do not think that there are traditional materials yet to be discovered
frankbeswick, on 02/07/2024
The English Woodlands
The second paragraph to your introduction acquaints us with poisonous Arum maculatum.
English Wikipedia associates its root with the saloop drink attracting British Isles-ers in pre-coffee and pre-tea times.
The aforementioned article avows ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
Meat versus vegetables:
Unitedstatesian amateur and professional athletes sometimes divide into groups favoring a carbohydrate diet or a protein diet before going into competitive events.
Unitedstatesian tennis champion Arthur Ashe indicated, in his autobiographies, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
Thank you for the three St. Patrick's Day-related links at the end of your wizzley.
A charming illustration afforded by the myfairyland link gives us a young Irish lass dancing on a chair.
Might there be a top-10 list of dances, musics and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
How to create a control society
University of British Columbia researchers are looking at social-justice and tree-canopy implications of Vancouver municipally densifying.
That aforementioned term assumes its noun form as densification, for arranging living and working spaces ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
A near-downtown business in my hometown always offered non-shopping passersby and shoppers a delicious, free St. Patrick's Day meal every March 17.
Their mashed-potato colcannon tasted just a tad delicious-er than all their other delicious-est ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024