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Islander: a journey round our archipelago. A Review
No. The Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland are out of sight of the mainland, as are St Kilda and Fouls.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: a review
I suspect that the latter possibility was the dominant motive.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
The Original Name of God
Ababa, was one, God is another.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Small Gardens
I do not have any information on this mattter, but six inches seems a reasonable hypothesis
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Simone Weil, a short-lived genius
I do not thInk that anyone has sufficient information to answer this question.
frankbeswick, on 01/18/2024
Goldilocks and Three Bears
Thank you for the link to your Rapunzel article!
The third subheading, Rapunzel, identifies Parsley as a predecessor to Rapunzel and Rapunzel as a predecessor to Goldilocks, name-wise.
What might be the fairy-tale implications of naming the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
Simone Weil, a short-lived genius
The second paragraph to the first subheading, Life and death, considers that Simone Weil dominated classical Greek before age 12.
The first paragraph to the third subheading, Religion, finds her self-educating herself in Sanskrit. The latter ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
Goldilocks and Three Bears
The second subheading, Goldilocks, amazes me with the changed character of "heroine" Goldilocks over time.
So Goldilocks began fairy-tale life as a silver-locked woman who checked up on everyone else around her. She then evolved into a fox.
We ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
Small Gardens
The first paragraph to the second subheading, My inspiration, considers the maraîcher vegetable-growers who "owned their own soil, so if they had to move on from a plot they took their soil with them."
Might there be an account or a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
Goldilocks and Three Bears
The first sentence in the second subheading, Goldilocks, considers that "The name of the intruder changed throughout the history of this story. Before we had Silver Hair and Silverlocks."
People generally esteem gold more than silver. So might ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
The Original Name of God
Your comment July 20, 2021, in answwer to my question July 19, 2021, advises that "Jesus used Eloi, when he was on the cross, and he spoke of God as Father. Paul wrote in Greek, so he used theos."
What divine name did Jesus Christ invoke with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: a review
The first paragraph to the first subheading, The Motivation of the Book, alerts us to the facts that "Pitrie's motivation in writing this book was generally to support and promote Catholic teaching, but his motives are rooted in an incident in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
Islander: a journey round our archipelago. A Review
The fifth paragraph to the first subheading, The theme of the book, describes author Patrick Barkham as "interested in islands, as he is in coastlines."
That last word encourages me to think of insular and mainland coastlines.
Might all ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
Three Years On: how retirement is now
The first paragraph to the second subheading, Other worthwhile activities, considers that " I augment my real wealth by growing vegetables. Making use of the time that I now have as a retiree, I have taken on second allotment, a half plot on ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024
Allotments: the people's gardens
The first paragraph to the first subheading, The origins of allotments, considers that "there arose a movement to allocate land to the poor, and so the British allotment was born, not without resistance from vested interests, but it has ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/17/2024