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The Tatton Show 2023
Your mentioning a toasted sandwich leaves me wondering about how bread looks in you and your family's household.
My imagination produces either sliced bread - ugh -- Unitedstatesian style or French and Italian style bread. Would that be correct ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/01/2023
A Forest for the Future
Black poplars are not native and were onlynplanted sporadically at sitescaround Britain, which meant that they were unlikely to pollinatebeach other.
frankbeswick, on 08/01/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
Yes. I know of one case when a woman buried a medal of Our Lady in the garden of a house She was seeking to rent.. I knOw of no tradition of burying a statue of St Joseph.
frankbeswick, on 08/01/2023
The Tatton Show 2023
I have started eating the cheddar with black pepper. I used it on a toasted sandwich.
frankbeswick, on 08/01/2023
A Forest for the Future
The first paragraph to your second subheading, Floral treasures, considers black poplar and sycamore populations.
That paragraph describes black poplar trees too far apart to be pollinated. Does that mean that black poplars are extant in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/31/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
Online sources indicate that it's a Unitedstatesian tradition to bury a St. Joseph statue in the back yard or in a front-door flower pot to ensure a quick house sale at a desirable price.
The Klemond article -- which is not appearing again ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/31/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
Your fifth symbol, Stay-laces and poisoned comb, describes Snow White as temporarily lapsing into vanity.
That lapse makes me think of heroic literature, of heroes and -- ;-D -- heroines and their one flaw.
It reminds me of perhaps Sleeping ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/31/2023
The Tatton Show 2023
Your last paragraph in the next-to-last subheading Marquees identifies cheeses, pies and wines as pursuable edibles at the Tatton show.
You indicate that you and your family already ingested the pies. What is the fate of the cheeses: fresh or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/31/2023
A Forest for the Future
Metal.
I don't think that sessile oak is now used for boats or ships. Wood or fibreglass is used.
frankbeswick, on 07/29/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
Your introductory paragraph informs us that "The popularity of pink in all its countless shades steadily arose until it became one of the most sought-after choices in modern interior design."
On this, western side of the (Atlantic) pond there's ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/29/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
St Joseph was one of those people who had quiet holiness, so he died and was buried in an unmarked grave known unto God. There was no reason for him to be buried elsewhere, other than with his kinsfolk in Bethlehem, but Nazareth is the higher ...
frankbeswick, on 07/29/2023
A Forest for the Future
The second paragraph to your second subheading, Floral treasures, references wooden warships made of sessile oak.
What would fighter ships be made of today? Would there be any restrictions about one making one own's boat or yacht of sessile oak ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/29/2023
The Tatton Show 2023
Always vegetables. My son is an allotment holder, but he is not into competition at present. He is keen on fruit and vegetables, but I think that his heart is in fruit. Anyway, Chelsea is a dream, as you have to be invited to participate and ...
frankbeswick, on 07/29/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
Susan Klemond, in her Where is St. Joseph buried? And is it OK to bury his statue when selling a house? Nov. 17, 2020, for The Catholic Spirit, in St. Paul, Minnesota, suggests that St. Joseph died, and perhaps was buried, in Nazareth.
Would ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/29/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
The first paragraph to your sixth symbol, the apple, considers the Bible not identifying the forbidden fruit.
Have you come across the tradition that the forbidden fruit was a pomegranate?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/29/2023