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To my knowledge no blue her on has found its way here.

Pilchardscare all pretty similarbinnsize,,so maybe four pernpie is right.

This information is new to me. Sorry

There !was general agreement between them,but little information was given.

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The National Weather Service attributes the shadow-seeing woodchuck tradition to German settlers in 18th-century Pennsylvania.

The Library of Congress site gives the Palatinate region of southwest Germany as 18th-century source for Pennsylvania-headed German emigrants.

The Limerick site lists Palatinate Germans as settling Counties Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Wexford.

Online sources mention the Emerald Isle as woodchuck-free!

Might the shadow-seeing tradition have been abandoned for that reason?

(Or would there be another animal at least in Irish-Palatinate culture areas?)

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That's interesting about west-coast locations of British-Isles shingle beaches. Hawaiian equivalents, as pebble beaches, occur perhaps most desirously along west-coast Hawaii county and island.

Hawaiian pebble and sand beaches receive high marks in the beach-rated world.

Would there be a problem with British-Isles beachcombers de-shingling shingle beaches by pockets full of beach shingles?

The third paragraph to the third subheading, The Honister Pass, attributes paternal astuteness to your discerning your first heron.

My spectacularest discernment happened within the past few years.

My feline sentients made sounds that I hadn't heard previously from the bathroom windowsill. I noticed a great blue heron (Ardea herodias) in the west-yard creek from the vernal pool.

The Caribbean, Central, North, South American wading-bird species sometimes occurs as a rare vagrant in the Azores and in unspecified European countries.

Would you know them to wend their rare-vagrant way to the British Isles?

No such tradition exists in Britain.

John of Damascus speaking in a sermon on the feast of Mary's dormition says that Joseph was a widower with children. He needed a wife and found one in Mary.

Thank you for the end-of-text link to fairyworld.

The first in-text image there gives 9 images under the first subheading, Fairies. The first three images have their attributions as with Mummy's bedtime story book, The fairy fruit and The two bad fairies.

What might be the published-book attributions for the next 6?

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English Wikipedia lists as other ingredients to stargazy pie eggs and potatoes. Its pictures look like four pilchards per pie.

Might that mean four big pieces or would it mean that with smaller-cut pieces not everyone would get a fish head?

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My mother's paternal Norse line chose the Orkney islands even as family members throughout succeeding generations ultimately dwelt not only in Limerick county but in all other Irish counties.

English Wikipedia lists Limerick as Gaelicized to Luimneach ("the flat area"). English Wiktionary makes Luimneach from lomm na n-each (bare [field] of the horses").

How would you pronounce Luimneach?

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Your drink preferences fit in with mine in the sense of sparkling water and tea even as I include occasional chicory and -- with such herbal tea bags as ginger, senna, turmeric -- regular coffee.

I hope that you are back in action and that all out-of-action after- and side-effects are gone.

Please receive my best wishes for New Year 2024, and for all years, as always for you and your husband and your family as well as for your brother Frank and his wife and their family.

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The J.M. Smucker Company keeps beef in its high-regarded mince pies even as Unitedstatesian mince pies trend toward fruits such as apples with nuts such as pecans and spices such as nutmeg.

What fruits might east-side ponders mix into their mince pies?

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English Wikipedia addresses as non-fact-based tradition Fleance, Banquo's son in the Shakespearian play Macbeth, arriving in Wales and being awarded as his wife Nesta, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn's daughter. That article attributes a genealogical association between Nesta (through her father or her mother?) and King Arthur.

What do Welsh traditions say?