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Headwear appeals to me also in the case of bicycles and motorcycles. A helmet is a must for me.

Would you go bicycling or motorcycling or scootering or skateboarding with or without protective headgear such as a helmet?

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Headwear for myself rarely appeals to me other than the church-service mantilla that I had growing up.

My outer wear always has a hooded component in case of cold or rainy weather.

(Is your dad hat always the same one or is it a set of dad hats color-coded -- or not ;-D -- to your accessories or clothing or footwear?)

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Your comment Jan. 9, 2021, in answer to my previous question Jan. 8, 2021, indicates that "Mince pies used to be a mixture of fruit and meat. Only in the nineteenth century was mince separated into fruit mince and mincemeat."

Is that still the general practice in the 21st century?

Or might mixed fruit and meat be found in grocery stores and markets or in specialty shops or not at all?

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The History Points site describes Traeth Lafan, with Snowdonia-sourced freshwatered streams, as an important wildlife habitat for golden eye and red-breasted mergansers as well as for the British Isles' largest-gathering moulting great grebes.

Is this area the same as the Lafan Sands with the shellfish farm invoked in your comment below March 31, 2023, in answer to my previous, same-day question?

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So west Ireland appeals to you and to your sister.

Does that mean any county anywhere in western Ireland or would there be preferences for certain counties over others?

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Considering Irish among languages such as English, Greek and Latin in which you pray called to mind the film Róise & Frank, in which the actors communicate in Gaelic.

The aforementioned film concerns a widow whose husband comes back as a canine sentient to deliver her from depressing grief. He completes that mission and continues to his apparent next assignment with a grieving family.

So perhaps the man Frank as the canine sentient Frank functions in the next life as a traveling guardian angel.

Is that notion from some belief or tradition in Gaelic culture or spirituality?

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English Wiktionary considers the fish pilchard of unknown origin.

The Oxford English Dictionary correlates its use since an earliest date of 1407.

Some online sources define the earliest spellings pilchar, pilcher and pylcher as "one who wears a pilch."

They also exist as undefined surnames.

Have you ever come across any of the above words as last names?

When the beach was deshingled.

It follows the U K pattern.

The first two sentences to your introduction advise us that "You cannot now visit Hallsands, though there is a viewing platform, for the sea still eats away at the shore where the fishing village once stood. But the name lives on, a testimony to a combination of cynical officialdom, pressures of war or the threat of it, and the inevitability of coastal erosion."

Did coastal erosion always endanger Hallsands or did that threat emerge with the de-shingled beach?

UK , but his wife has dual nationality

Thanks for telling me I wrote levirate l e v I r a t e.

A fanciful species

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English Wikipedia cautions that British Overseas Territories, Isle of Man, Jersey and Northern Ireland follow road-numbering schemes different from the mainland system.

Does, for example, Northern Ireland's road-numbering scheme differ maximally or minimally from the mainland system?

(So might mainlanders dread or embrace Northern Ireland's road classifications?

Interesting. I just looked at the real difference between a baseball team and a dad team. I would have thought theat a Baseball would have been more expensive but the reverse is true.