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I do not know. We all have our little eccentricities.

The curriculum has changed since
I was in primary school. The focus is still on basics, reading, writing and maths, but art, music religio, physical education Tec are also taught.

The speakers may use Ulster Gaelic, the dialect nearest to Scots. Official Irish Gaelic uses the Munster dialect, which is the southern dialect and the purest Gaelic there is.

My friend, who is a far better Gaelic speaker than I, uses Irish Gaelic, but can understand Scots Gaelic speakers

Thank you!

Compost applications are a favorite.

Haven't you tended toward leaf compost?

(If so, what kind of leaves might you favor?)

Wine Making Guides site identifies as ingredients
1/2 lb / 225 grams onions
1/2 lb / 225 grams potatoes
1 lb / 450 grams raisins
2 1/2 lbs / 1,100 grams granulated sugar
1 teaspoon acid blend
Wine yeast
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient / energiser
8 pints / 1 gallon water
1 campden tablet.

What might your wine-making experience indicate about the above ingredients?

Would you know what "acid blend" and "yeast nutrient/energiser" and "campden tablet" might be?

Thank you!

That's sobering about the Channel Islands.

How was communication carried out? Were the Nazi occupiers fluent in English or would the Channel Isles-ers have had to learn German?

Thank you!

Some online sources describe Jesus Christ, Joseph and Our Lady Mary as Aramaic speakers.

Is Aramaic deemed the family and household language of the Holy Family?

What other languages might the Holy Family have known and used?

The elm tree-based jonquils bloomed Sunday and the ephemeral pool-based spring peepers cheep since Saturday even as the blue jay and the eastern bluebird respectively call "thief!" names and "purty, purty [= pretty]" compliments since the weekend too.

The temperature commenced at 69 degrees Fahrenheit (20.55 degrees Celsius) this morning!

(Relatedly and unrelatedly, why did Stephen Hawking always give the temperature equivalent of degrees Fahrenheit as in degrees Centigrade instead of identifying it as degrees Celsius?)

A six-year-old attends first grade, the entry, first level after kindergarten.

That causes me to consider the subjects that do and do not draw a six-year-old.

What is the curriculum? One of learning mathematics, reading and writing?

The second paragraph in your introduction ends with "The Preakness was not run in 1891, 1892 or 1893, but has been contested every year since."

Why was the second jewel in the racing crown not held in those three years?

Were the first and the second jewels in the racing crown still held?

No, the ogre in Puss in Boots didn't have gigantic servants. This would made a story too complicated. But illustrators played a lot with perspectives and we have what we have.

The one eyed giant was made by Henry Justice Ford, three giants by Max Teschemacher, young giant with horses by Otto Ubbelohde.

Well, maybe our perception of sensational is today different than then?

Some of the yellow books were brought across the Channel, that's for sure, but I don't think they had an organized distribution.