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What an interesting subject - and well written. I'm amazed Elizabeth Hancock nursed and buried her entire family in Eyam but survived herself.

@TiaMaria, the Limelight grows in zones 4-8. Some hydrangeas do grow in Canada.

When was that Anne? Whereabouts were you? What were you doing? Fabulous country!

I lived in Zambia for 3 years - thanks for taking me back - great photos

Simply beautiful. I can't wait to see the green tinged flowers. Do these grow very well in Canada?

Thanks LG for the dissemination. Had HP employed a rigorous quality standard from the start our (mine and others) misgivings as far as the current situation might have been assuaged. However, despite all of the lauded changes to increase quality, we still see poor and blatantly spun content there.
Because Web 2.0 sites and the content we place on them can never be considered totally our own, it is always worth diversifying as much as possible. This can moderate any impact that can occur when a site decides that any of our content no longer meets with the standards re-set by them.
It is always worth diversifying where your traffic arrives from - placing all eggs in the Google basket is a recipe for disaster also.

You're welcome, Dustytoes and thanks for visiting again. I share your love of fish and hope to write many more similar pages in future.

I read this through. I have mixed feelings to all writing sites since HP. It is my opinion that all those challenges are and have lead HP to their double standard. I, too, was writing like crazy when I first started then all the Pandas came about and just rolled right over top of me. Now I see many newbies doing all those challenges and so many of them are poorly done. I don't know. I see many writing their own books, but what of us who don't want to write books? I like Jerrico and he tried to help me out once and I thank him for that. This is a good article and I spread it on my FB for others to see and read.

It was a wonderful place to grow up. A pity politicians spoilt it. Sir Roy was a friend to me ~ in that I knew two of his nieces well.

Good fight. :p

Because Big Bird isn't a monster. It's a bird.

Apparently so. :) And I do write about other things too, as well you know. I've seen you creeping around my Halloween costumes for babies articles!

I thought so too. :)

Running is great for people and dogs! I have joint problems and wicked bad shin splints now so I don't even consider it. I'm looking for a bike though. Glad to hear she's looking for a shelter dog! Good for her.

My daughters a runner. She prefers running with her dog who's getting to old to run with her anymore. She's now looking at shelters for a new running companion. Dogs are great.