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10 Lessons from Bremen Town Musicians
It's interesting that the Bremen town musicians join together the sentient animals that it juxtaposes.
Might there be any symbolism concerning cats, dogs, donkeys and roosters that necessitate these particular sentients being selected for this ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/13/2024
10 Lessons from Bremen Town Musicians
Me too, I agree that compassionate deeds, feelings and thoughts are the greatest of these attributes.
Adaptability, age, compassion, cooperation, diversity, optimism, persistence, prescience and respect singly and together assure us, as in your ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/13/2024
Wildlife on the allotment
We do not have grey foxes on our side of the pond. But red foxes are plentiful.
frankbeswick, on 01/13/2024
Winter into Spring
It is the same substance . The polythene is clipped on to the frame.
frankbeswick, on 01/13/2024
A Nice Cup of Tea
British peatbbogs are under severe pressure and are being preserved for environmental reasons, such as flood prevention.?
frankbeswick, on 01/13/2024
A Quiet Corner of Ireland
I think that there is a rite of deconsecration.
frankbeswick, on 01/13/2024
How to Plan, Design and Manage Workshops
We studied it as kids at school.
"Eyecatcher, in architecture, is a costly, generally nonfunctional building erected to enhance a natural landscape" Very extravagant.
Jo_Murphy, on 01/12/2024
10 Lessons from Bremen Town Musicians
Once more, many thanks for alerting me to the D.L. Ashliman version of the Grimm Brothers' Bremen Town Musicians.
That text describes the cat as an unspecified "town musician"; the dog as an aspiring drummer; the donkey as an aspiring lute ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/12/2024
10 Lessons from Bremen Town Musicians
Again, thank you for orienting me to the D.L. Ashliman version of the Bremen town musicians!
My one regret remains no accompanying in-text illustrations.
The in-text images of your wizzley show the rooster as dark-tailed, dark wing-tipped ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/12/2024
10 Lessons from Bremen Town Musicians
So many thanks for directing me to the D.L. Ashliman version of the Bremen Town Musicians!
In-text images in your wizzley display the dog as brown according to Paula Ebner and Oskar Herrfurth and golden according to Frederik Richardson.
The ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/12/2024
How to Plan, Design and Manage Workshops
There's some non-purpose-built example that currently eludes me.
The only example may sound non-purposeful in its name but perhaps not in its reputation.
Might you be acquainted with the folly style in French architecture?
French architects ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/12/2024
Wildlife on the allotment
Thank you!
There are gray- and red-fox species here on the western side of the Atlantic pond.
Do eastern-ponders have both species too? (Online sources most readily referenced red foxes.)
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/12/2024
Winter into Spring
Thank you!
Might polythene be synonymous with Unitedstatesian polyethylene?
Would that polythene be top-hemmed for inching onto a rod or nailing onto a board?
Would it be heavy enough to stay in place or would it require some kind of ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/12/2024
A Nice Cup of Tea
Thank you!
Some Unitedstatesians associate peat with resources whose use carefully must be monitored even as they extol their efficacy.
Might that outright or potential precariousness be a reason for it "being phased out"?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/12/2024
A Quiet Corner of Ireland
Thank you!
Does the deconsecration just involve a changed status in Church record-keeping or does it mandate something ceremonial or ritual?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/12/2024