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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
Cinderella: we can all relate with her, can't we?
My wizzley Book Review of The Irish Cinderlad: Fairy Tale About a Boy From the Emerald Isle Folklore of Ireland (https://wizzley.com/book-review-of-th...) dealt with the story of big-footed, cinder-consigned Becan, according to authoress Shirley ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
Creating a lovely garden
The Indian subcontinent archives in its Buddhist and Hindu mythologies gardens of their gods. Those mythologies avail us of actual plant names.
Is there such a tradition somewhere regarding plants invoking the perfect, Eden garden?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
Coping with the flood:floating gardens
The fourth paragraph to the first subheading, Flood problems, advises us that "In Britain they probably occurred when we had more lakes, and when lake shores were not as tidy as they are now."
Up until when did the British Isles have more ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
Alderley Edge: Woods, Wizards and Mines
The Irish Cinderlad, subject of my wizzley Book Review of The Irish Cinderlad: Fairy Tale About a Boy From the Emerald Isle Folklore of Ireland (https://wizzley.com/book-review-of-the-irish-cinderlad-fairy-tale-about-a-boy-from-the-emerald-isle ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
Current color trends in weddings
The second paragraph to the first subheading, Rings, advises us that "Colored diamonds are available in yellow, pink, red, blue, black and other tones, often called with fancy names like champagne, cognac or chocolate."
Has there been such an ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
Your 8th, 9th and 10th subheadings, about green, orange and white colors respectively, calls to mind your wizzley regarding the rule of the threes.
That rule can be said to apply to the Irish flag, correct?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/06/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
The 9th subheading, orange, indicates that "Orange is also closely related to gold which is of course ingrained in Irish tradition. This means you can use it as one of the symbols of St. Patrick's Day."
The above description inspired me to re ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/06/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
The in-text image between the 8th and the 9th subheadings, respectively about green and orange flag colors, causes me to consider the complete flag context.
The image looks like the flag-supporting staff is dark.
Might the staff color convey ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/06/2024
Best alternatives to Blogger (Blogspot)
Thank you for the myfairytales link at the end of the 8th, Substack alternative to Blogger/Blogspot.
The beauty and the beast illustrations give beastly interpretations in all but 8 instances. Half of those 8 instances have no one beastly. The ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/06/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
The seventh subheading, Rainbow, includes a partial image of a rainbow.
Sometimes rainbows look like they start somewhere in the sky and terminate somewhere on the ground. Sometimes, particularly for valley-spanning rainbows over mountain ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/06/2024
St. Patrick's Day's Symbols
The sixth subheading, Pot of gold, considers that "Gold in all classic fairy tales represents one of the major goals and a leprechaun's pot was cordially accepted as a tradition coming from Ireland to the rest of the world."
Does that tradition ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/05/2024
Rapunzel: the legend, the fairy tale, the truth
What with the 2023 release of her latest book, The ghost ship, I have been rereading other fiction by Kate Mosse.
The aforementioned author imagined a short-story sequel, La fille de Mélisande ("The daughter of Millicent"), to the Achille ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/05/2024