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Winter Walking

The first paragraph to the first subheading, The bones of the land, describes mistletoe as suddenly visible because of the winter-barren trees. Might that mistletoe stay in the trees or must it be collected by those who sell holiday ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 11/21/2023

Walsingham: England's Marian shrine

The second paragraph in the second subheading, Restoration, discusses Charlotte Boyd's altruism, humanitarianism and philanthropy. Were there assets and money left by the time of her death? If so, would a will have ensured the altruistic, ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 11/21/2023

The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna

Thank you! It's interesting that the finder and the landowner equally share the value. Who makes the decision as to where the trésor trouvé (treasure found, ;-D) goes? Might it be the finder, the landowner, some museum, some regulator?

DerdriuMarriner, on 11/21/2023

Christmas Activities for Kids

Your comment below, in answer to my previous question about raspberry syrup, describes raspberries as "free for at least two months every year in many neighborhoods." Would the raspberries freely have been given by their growers or by grocery ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 11/21/2023

Make Your Printable Advent Calendar

The computer crashed yesterday before I concluded my answer to preferences for bought or personal gifts. Someone who's not adept at gift-making or gift-purchasing, I find the gift most happily memorable if that person just gives me a check. ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 11/21/2023

The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna

MIstake correction. In the previous comment I should have written treasure trove rather than treasured trove. The word comes from the French word trouver which means to find, hence treasure found.

frankbeswick, on 11/21/2023

The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna

No. Only if an obeject is gold or silver does it become treasured trove and therefore liable to be handed in. The finder and landowner get an equal share of the value.

frankbeswick, on 11/21/2023

Walsingham: England's Marian shrine

Hope is nowadays very uncommon as a male name. IT's use goes back t,o the seventeenth century when people named their children after virtues.. @

frankbeswick, on 11/21/2023

Winter Walking

Climate change. Hurricanes in the Americas cause streams of warm air to cross the Atlantic, picking up moisture as they go, which precipitated on Cumbria.

frankbeswick, on 11/21/2023

The Mystery of the Langham Madonnna

The fifth paragraph under the first subheading, Concealment, indicates that "But in the twentieth century century a statue was found in an old house in nearby Langham whose owner had died. The new owners thought it an antique and in 1925 it was ...