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Wild Fell: a wild life Warden's Experiences

The second paragraph in your first subheading, First Steps, explains that "The story begins with a policy decision by the RSPB, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, to purchase farms and land rights in a national park" and that "Lee ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2023

Our Lady's House at Ephesus

There was no tradition of this kind.just ordinary crafting materials were used.

frankbeswick, on 08/06/2023

A Forest for the Future

Yes. It is believed that for some time Welsh was spoken in South East Ireland, and a Welsh term for king is germ or, intern, hence Vortigern , great king.

frankbeswick, on 08/06/2023

The Origins of the Irish: a review

I do not think that there is currently any difference between the diets.

frankbeswick, on 08/06/2023

Was Tirumala Tirupati Balaji Temple a Buddhist Shrine?

Thank you! You've answered all my questions, such that I've enjoyed reading them as much as I treasure reading your original wizzleys.

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/05/2023

Our Lady's House at Ephesus

Your next-to-last paragraph mentions a status of Our Lady Mary. Was there any tradition as to what materials any statues to her or to her (retiring) husband or to her (even famouser) Son would be made of?

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/05/2023

A Forest for the Future

Internet sources suggest a possible etymology as din teyrn, "rocks of the king" for Tintern. Would that sound like a reasonable origin for the name to you on the eastern (Atlantic) pond side? (Why would the name not be "rocks of God" since it ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/05/2023

The Great Wave of Kanagawa from Japanese Artist Hokusai

Internet sources avail us of all the blocks in the Hokusai series. They conserve his self-created profile of himself as an 83-year-old. Hokusai displays an apparently peaceful attitude even as his eyes and his head embrace a right-sided turn ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/05/2023

The Origins of the Irish: a review

The land and the sea animal populations of ancient and modern Ireland intrigue me. Would you say that the northern and the republican Irish get their protein more from land or from sea life? In other words, would I find more land- or more sea ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/05/2023

A Forest for the Future

Both abbeys were Cistercian foundations. The woods available for building are very much the same in Britain and Ireland.

frankbeswick, on 08/05/2023

A Forest for the Future

Internet sources appear to represent "the other" Tintern Abbey -- in County Wexford -- as always having been built of stone. Had it been built first of wood, might that wood have been the same -- since Wikipedia indicates it as likewise founded ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/05/2023

Snow White and Its Symbols

The eighth symbol, Birds, perhaps becomes my favorite because it has to do with nature and because it's so positive about and respectful of nature. States such as Hawaii and Massachusetts guard such positive associations and even more. For ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/05/2023

A Forest for the Future

Probably a variety of woods. Sessile oak was common in the region around Tintern and this madevsturdy structuresyew might have been used as it is flexible, and beech for furnishings.

frankbeswick, on 08/05/2023

Blake’s 7 Mindset review: Third in the second series of full-cast audio plays from Big Finish

The first subheading, Is Mindset any good?, mentions that "A minor flaw is when Tarrant says they can’t teleport the water back to the planet because you can’t teleport water, but the water had been teleported up to the Liberator in the first ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/04/2023

Blake’s 7 Ghost Ship review: Fourth in the second series of full-cast audio plays from Big Finish

Your first subheading, Is Ghost-ship any good?, considers that "Given how much this episode is Vila only, with some Avon, maybe it would have been better as a Liberator Chronicles story rather than a full-cast audio, as having the rest of the ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 08/04/2023