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Should You Celebrate Father’s Day?

DerdriuMarriner - I think giving cash or gift certificate is a good idea. One can buy anything - a grocery item, a mug of coffee or just save it for a rainy day.

WriterArtist, on 05/30/2023

Birding in South Korea in Winter Highlights

Glad you enjoyed the article and photos.

nickupton, on 05/30/2023

Birding in South Korea in Winter Highlights

You are so right. I had never considered Korea to be a birding destination. You have opened up anew train of thought for me. Your photos are superb. Ty.

Veronica, on 05/29/2023

Tree Stories: a Review

That information was not shared.

frankbeswick, on 05/27/2023

Tree Stories: a Review

Stumps can grow roots and sprouts. I have seen this with stumps still upright -- and whose surface I therefore use as a dining table for the food that I leave for wildlife -- in the ground. I have not seen this with stumps lying sideways on the ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/26/2023

Tree Stories: a Review

I am not clear on the answer to this question.

frankbeswick, on 05/25/2023

An insect friendly garden

Thankyou.

frankbeswick, on 05/25/2023

A Tree Sacred and Deadly

We know the saying.

frankbeswick, on 05/25/2023

Tree Stories: a Review

The first paragraph under your second subheading, Stories of Trees, discusses zombie stumps. Were the Duprochet, then the Bader and Leuzinger zombie stumps left with above- and under-ground remnants above-ground or part above- and part below ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/25/2023

Snow White and Rose Red: Analysis

The third fact about the Absent Father caused me to consider about stepfathers in fairy tales. Rose Red and Snow White with a dead father and a live mother have no stepfather. But is it generally likelier the way fairy tales go for the dead ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/25/2023

An insect friendly garden

This article is my favorite among those online covering the Royal Entomological Society garden. I read those online because they're written as the garden is being showcased. The articles available online were informative, especially the Doyle ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/25/2023

A Tree Sacred and Deadly

Thank you! What I was finding elsewhere, unlike your clear, helpful, succinct explanation below, was as clear as mud. Would you eastern-ponders have the above saying, that something is "clear as mud" -- ;-D -- to refer to murky statements and ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 05/25/2023

A Tree Sacred and Deadly

The narrows probably refers to the fact that the lough is in fact two laughs linked by a narrow, shallow passage.

frankbeswick, on 05/25/2023

An insect friendly garden

I saw the garden on television yesterday and I based my article on what I had read about it.

frankbeswick, on 05/25/2023

Tree Stories: a Review

I have never heard of this custom, so no, it is not done in Britain.

frankbeswick, on 05/25/2023