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As Winter Comes
It sounds like your winter, spring, summer, fall diets will concentrate on fruits and vegetables.
Might it be the same fruits and vegetables year-round?
Or must it be certain fruits and vegetables, such as what's in season?
Or would they all ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/16/2023
Meat versus vegetables:
The Nutrition Advance website equates dulce-eating with dried and fried snacks, powdered seasonings, soups and stews.
Is that how it is served as the Irish dillusk?
Which preparation would you find least and most tasting like more ;-D?
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/16/2023
The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna
Muslin appears in any and all examples and images that I'm thinking of right this instant as an off-white.
Would there have been just the one, natural option for the holy veil or would there have been a color range that would have been ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/16/2023
Walsingham: England's Marian shrine
The Langham Madonna in the British Museum probably augments already augmented crowds, correct?
How easy and how often might it be possible to view Her?
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/16/2023
Easter Crafts for Preschoolers
The first item under the second paragraph to the first idea, Decoration, gives as child- (and grown-up- ;-D) friendly activities "making banners, door hangers, floor, windows and walls decorations."
What colors, materials and sizes might be the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/16/2023
Meat versus vegetables:
Spell checker has played up.Again! In the preceding response to a comment I wrote the botanical term for a kind of seaweed, which was dulce. D U L C E. The spell checker changed it to dunce.
frankbeswick, on 11/16/2023
The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna
It would have been an expensive cloth, probably muslin, which was the classiest cloth at that time. The cloth would have been washed and renewed man on a regular basis
frankbeswick, on 11/16/2023
Meat versus vegetables:
We do not eat much seaweed. I eat it occasionally, dunce, the Irish dillusk.
frankbeswick, on 11/16/2023
The threshold of mystery: Religious Experience
An excellent question. I do not think that there is such a hierarchy, for the numinous acts as it sees fit. Some people experience it in ceremonies, but others in silence and there seems to be no pattern to its occurrences in daily life.
frankbeswick, on 11/16/2023
Walsingham: England's Marian shrine
The British Museum, the national repository for great cultural artefacts in London
frankbeswick, on 11/16/2023
The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna
The third paragraph to the second subheading, The statue and its provenance, considers that the Langham Madonna at one time may have had a cloth veil replaced daily.
What kind of cloth would be used for something holy such as the Madonnan veil? ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/15/2023
Meat versus vegetables:
DustyToes has recent luau- and other party-themed wizzlies that I've been enjoying along with Miha Gasper's nautical-themed wedding-party wizzley.
The latter made me start thinking of luau- and nautical-themed get-togethers that have seafood ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/15/2023
Nautical Theme Wedding Invitations
The JimmyGreen website lists as traditional nautical-rope colors blue, white and red.
It mentions white for mainsail halyard, blue or blue and white for headsail sheets and halyard and red or red and white for halyard and spinnaker ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/15/2023
Interesting, unknown and fun facts about The Little Mermaid
The second paragraph to the first fact, about Little Mermaid predecessors, indicates that Andersen discussed plot points with acquaintances.
Might it be known who those acquaintances whose input and opinions and reactions he sought were?
Would ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/15/2023
Oscar Wilde's Women
This top-10 list cries out for another list.
How easy would it be to compile a list of 10 men important to Oscar Wilde personally and professionally?
DerdriuMarriner, on 11/15/2023