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All seems to be as normal.

All my sons are either/both runners and walkers. Matthew is both. Andrew is both. Peter is soon to do the th three peaks challenge, Snowdon, Scafell Pike and
Ben Nevis to prove to himself that he can add walking to his ability asca runner.

That's so weird about the links listing the page as non-existent even as the article mustering up that bibliography and all the links perform beautifully.

But yes, it would be educationally entertaining for you to write about AI personalities (and personality types?)!

One son appears to inherit the family long-walking pastime.

Might he make it to Hemsley?

Thank you!

There also is an annual tradition, since 1951 of Norway sending to Iceland a Christmas tree for the two nations being friends! (I know from Ragnar Jónasson novels ;-D!)

Sameet Sharma mentioned in his The Christmas Tree Beef Between Norway and Iceland Has Been Squashed July 28, 2014, for Vice Media Group that Oslo notified Reykjavik and Rotterdam of no 2014 Christmas tree for them, but a Christmas tree for London, because of the $29,000 annual cost Oslo-Reykjavik.

Reykjavik Mayor Jón Gnarr objected. Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang put the tradition back into effect, at least for Reykjavik if not for Rotterdam.

Would there be any public indication of the cost Oslo-London that fortunately worked for uninterrupted gift-giving for London?

There is no royal Christmas tree, but every year Norway sends a Christmas tree to London, a large one, in thanks for what Britain did in World War two. It is displayed in Trafalgar square.

Online sources add Norway spruce to the Unitedstatesian popularest Christmas tree lists even as Scots pine appears to dominate among about 9 other best-selling traditionals.

The abovementioned species got much attention as the 2023 National Christmas Tree. It may maintain that honor for December 2024 or the National Park Service and the USDA Forest Service may niche a different cut species each year from henceforth.

The Coolidge presidential administration offered a Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) as the first National Christmas Tree, in 1923.

Would there be such a thing as a British-Isles or a royal Christmas tree species?

Yes I saw it thanks.

I have no experience of living in a silent monastery. so I can only surmise. I can suggest that it is quite relaxed.

Thank you!

So the Norway spruce is to east-side ponders what Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) is to west-side ponders.

(Might you have seen what the spell checker did to Picea abies in the comment box below? ;-{)

Thank you!

Conversation suggests informality to me. But would there be only religious and spiritual topics that would be discussed during that recreational period or would it be possible for anything non-blasphemous, non-objectionable?

Allright, Jo_Murphy. I'm looking forward.

No, it just has to be a lamb.

The artist is Germaine Bouret. Unfortunately Wizzley started renaming graphic files, so they are less descriptive as they were when uploaded. The original name of file is easter-card-with-lambs-germaine-bouret.jpg.

To color the eggs with onion peel you obviously need both (eggs should be washed before). Put them in cold water with addition of one spoon of vinegar and slowly boil. Boil for 10 minutes and leave for some time to cool down. More time will give you stronger color (which also depends on the peel's shade and quantity of peel, of course). Don't get burnt!