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The Health Benefits of Gardening
A council compost collection is a great idea even as I find no such equivalent among us west-ponders apart recyclable pick-ups with garbage.
Recyclables must be clean of any residue and clear of any labels.
What would you have to do -- bag it? ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/18/2023
10 Facts about Madame Leprince de Beaumont
The first fact/educated guess, Education, contains a reference to a younger sister who accompanied Jeanne-Marie to the convent.
Do we know anything else about that younger sister?
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/18/2023
British Country Shows
The containers are a matter of negotiation between designer and sponsor. There is no rule.
frankbeswick, on 10/18/2023
Fables and Fairy Tales; What's the Difference?
The computer crashed before I completed my comment concerning possible cave-art precedents to fables.
Have you read the book The First Signs, by Genevieve von Petzinger (daughter of a participant in the Nazi code-breaking team at Bletchley ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/18/2023
Silphium Rediscovered
No, we have noted nothing unusual.
frankbeswick, on 10/18/2023
The Health Benefits of Gardening
Her flower plot is in our back yard. We have a council compost collection with the garbage.
frankbeswick, on 10/18/2023
Thanksgiving Greeting Cards
This and your luau wizzley are so timely!
Might it not be possible to adjust Friends- and Thanks-giving cards and plans to a luau happening?
The Hawaiian luau operates from an ohana ("family" as that into which you're born and that which you ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/18/2023
Fables and Fairy Tales; What's the Difference?
Your Origin fact about the ancientness of fables causes much welcome pondering and reflecting on my part.
Is it not interesting that cave art, as world-oldest art, emphasizes animal motions and shapes?
Might it not be possible that these ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/18/2023
British Country Shows
The last subheading, Hampton Court and Chelsea, comments, in the next-last sentence of its second paragraph, that "The gardens are dismantled after the show, some go the sponsor, but other to charity. To do this the plants are not rooted in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/18/2023
Silphium Rediscovered
There's a saying among traditional Hawaiians that some animals and plants that may seem extinct may endure by having altered or expanded -- such as what it sounds like happened with silphium, but in the Hawaiian context by animals relocating or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/18/2023
The Health Benefits of Gardening
The very last sentence, "And maybe not even with tools, for last night I dead-headed my wife's flowers when I went out to check on them."
Your wife's spent flowers must be in a front- or back-yard plot smaller than your allotment, correct? So ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 10/18/2023
Hans Christian Andersen - a few words on his originality
He was a shoemaker but could not get a work because there was a limitation of only one shoemaker in certain place, so he was allowed to work only if the shoemaker with a licence was overwhelmed with work or sick. About being a illegitimate so of ...
Tolovaj, on 10/17/2023
10 Facts about Madame Leprince de Beaumont
I don't know about her father, but being a goldsmith was definitely a job for a noble man. Yes, you could earn solid money but high society would never accept you. And there was always a problem with licence - you culd be the gest goldsmith in ...
Tolovaj, on 10/17/2023
Fables and Fairy Tales; What's the Difference?
Yes, books were brought from Italy (which didn't exist as a state in those times) to France. Several paths were used and thee were several rewritings and translations.
Tolovaj, on 10/17/2023
Fables and Fairy Tales; What's the Difference?
Sorry, DeerdriuMarrine, my knowledge about Straparola is too limited for this answer at the moment. It's hard to find reliable facts about his life.
Tolovaj, on 10/17/2023