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Easter Crafts for Preschoolers
Your comment from Aug. 31, 2023, identifies potica with "cottage cheese/estragon, poppy seeds, hazelnuts, carob, and different combinations fillings."
Black walnuts and chestnuts number among the yard leaves last month and this month. So they ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/25/2023
Nautical Theme Wedding Invitations
The computer crashed before I concluded my envelopes and their invitations-related comment.
There likeliest is some leeway concerning the darker or lighter impact of the ink color for invitations and their envelopes, correct?
For example, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/25/2023
The Wreck of the SS Politician
Thank you for the steamship meaning -- which I'd not have guessed -- to SS!
Interestinger and interestinger!
Is the 100-year embargo something that's carved in stone? Or might it be extended another century once we reach 2041 in just 18 years?!
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/25/2023
Easter Crafts for Preschoolers
This wizzley helps for organizing young activities for get-togethers not just Easter-inspired.
For example, crafts and edibles with eggs, jellybeans and nuts and games with balloons inspire fun Friends- and Thanks-giving and funny Halloween get ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/25/2023
Nautical Theme Wedding Invitations
It looks like blue and white dominate even as brown, gold, red and yellow do have their place.
Might there be some etiquette regarding the ink color on the invitations and their envelopes?
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/25/2023
Silphium Rediscovered
It is not, clear, so we must display cautious judgment.
frankbeswick, on 10/25/2023
Silphium Rediscovered
It's possible that silphium comes from two words, sil for "yellow" and -ion for diminutiveness.
No internet sources list any language or word regarding the former even as English wiktionary mentions it as a yellowish pigment appreciated by ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/25/2023
The Wreck of the SS Politician
S.S means steamship. Now here is the important thing.. The normal rule is that official documents are under a thirty year embargo, so why are the Politician's documents under a hundred year embargo? Rumour has it that the Royal Family were ...
frankbeswick, on 10/25/2023
British Country Shows
The saplings were not ready for planting in Spring.
frankbeswick, on 10/25/2023
British Country Shows
Thank you!
That same paragraph also indicates that your son's fruit saplings had not been ready for the spring show.
Might your son have had saplings that were ready for the spring-show sales? If so, what kind were they?
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/25/2023
The Wreck of the SS Politician
Thank you! Interestinger and interestinger...!
Rereading the comments and the text brought to my attention the title of your wizzley, which includes the name of the boat.
Can the name SS Politician be considered a somewhat strange name for a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/25/2023
British Country Shows
The saplings were about a year old, which is the normal age for friuit saplings. The fruits included a wide range of Apple trees, some pears, small numbers of quinces, plums and damsons
frankbeswick, on 10/25/2023
The Wreck of the SS Politician
Farmers sometimes send their sheep for summer grazing onto uninhabited islands in rivers, lakes and the sea. I have a friend whose family sent their sheep to an island in the river Moy in Ireland for summer.The sheep would be taken by boat. The ...
frankbeswick, on 10/25/2023
I CRASHED BUT REFUSED TO BURN
Derdriu, I first sang this anthem at 17 years old. The last time was Saturday as I sang along with the album my choir made when I was 17! It still excites me! 🤗 I am 72 and my voice is far from what it used to be but I still love to sing it.
SidewalkPhilosopher, on 10/24/2023
I CRASHED BUT REFUSED TO BURN
Me too, I appreciate your song. It accounts for the divine input that reinforces your strong spirit and your personal and professional successes on the Emmaus Road that we all walk.
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/24/2023