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As the story ends with the second coming the ending would be,the same no matter when it was set.

It's not surprising even as the sequel, like its prequel, is not a blockbuster film Unitedstatesian- or world-wide.

My liking to listen to my non-English languages most likely made them known to me because of their European-language options, most often French or Spanish.

How might Lord of the world fare if written in 2024 exactly like the original but with the dates altered and later in the 21st century?

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It can be an interesting enterprise -- to me who is not there ;-D -- to employ that abandoned, unused estate mill as a growing-room for those Bodnant Garden plants that may grow indoors and outdoors.

Might there, from what you know of Bodnant Gardens, be any such plants?

Outdoor options indoors-able present themselves ever more attractively even as I pursue more and more basement, house-potted, windowsill options.

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Crystal stream and ancient wood, considers that "Drowners were men employed to manage the water levels that flowed through the network of channels that took the flooding over the land and moved it off before it overstayed and ruined the soil."

Does drowner-ing involve an unbroken line of practitioners? Or is the skill set something of the past?

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Counteracting influences, considers that the future Benedict XVI lived with his parents in a "small house with a large garden where he [the future pope's father] grew vegetables."

Is it known whether or not Joseph Ratzinger as Joseph Ratzinger and then as spiritual position-holder of positions culminating in his papal role pursued that paternal gardening interest?

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That's so correct about how protective cases, as you mention in your comment below, have "no bearing on how that camera is used"!

Might that be why so many put just their mobiles in their back pockets?

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Your poll gives interesting results from 18 votes:
Creative Writing 50%
Painting 6%
Tapestry 6%
Photography 6%
Theatre 6%.

It lets in the "other" category, which musters the second-highest response total, at 28%, to the highest, creative writing at 50%.

My comment Dec. 9, 2023, notes talking into a recorder as an option to fingers too tired for keyboarding or writing.

Would that show up in a broken-down other category?

Perhaps, since as you write so prresciently below, "A very useful tool and if it helps, highly recommended"!

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Another question answered, another question arising ;-D!

The second paragraph to the first subheading, Historical background, considers that "There is one tree on the island."

What is that arboreal species?

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LiamFoley63's Why is the wife of an earl called a countess? on the European Royal History site July 2, 2021, advises that no Saxon noble woman had a title apart cyninge (from Old English cyning -e, "king -having" via cyninge, "queen").

The aforementioned author associates the title earl with Old Norse jarl ("battle warrior" literally, but applicable to high-born fighter and to high-born noble next in dignity to king).

He culls no equivalent title for that nobleman in the British Isles even as English Wiktionary designates frua (from Old Norse via Old Saxon frūa, "lady") as wifely title to a husbandly earl.

Isn't it interesting that Old English lodges a precedent for the unlike earl and countess (versus the like prince and princess, marquis and marchioness, duke and duchess) in jarl and frua but not for the unlike king and queen (which in Old English may be translated literally as king and king-ess from cyning and cyninge!)?

Yes, Derdriu.. The Saxon nobility were destroyed as a class. Sadly. Quordle .

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The titled background to British-Isles versus continental titles is familiar to me.

That the British nobility log as a title something inconsistent with the pattern of prince and princess, duke and duchess, marquis and marchioness nevertheless somewhat mystifies me.

(But then how to perceive king and queen, not king and king-ess ;-D?)

Were the Saxon nobles so economically, politically, socially, socio-economically powerful that only their title would survive?

Opting not to be present at a death of a loved one is sad. Only last year I was present when my brother in law died. It was a poignant moment, but I had prepared by leading prayers at the bedside. The moment of death is not horrible, it has a profound thought provoking character.

A quick look again at True Gusto brings up no jacket or shirt with the non-poker-playing cats and the poker-playing cheetahs.

The latter image exists among the cup products.

(The baby-shirt design of the rubber ducky full-face on is so appealing. It must appeal to parents and parents-to-be!)

But searching this time around offers nothing about your fish and your cat images on this wizzley page as product-ized on your True Gusto pages ;-{.

Would you have plans to transfer the fish and cat images on this page to True Gusto pages as wearable-jacket or wearable-shirt products?

I think that the arcane world of security is beyond my sphere of competence.

Whoever is the decision-maker it also is interesting to ponder, Why potatoes?

Might you have the phrase "couch potato"?