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A British Garden Society
It was given to the local council, who rented out land on a first co Mr, first served basis.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023
A British Garden Society
The first paragraph to your first subheading, War Time, describes the World War I background to the modern allotment.
Was the Urmston-area land given out freely to its future cultivators, perhaps on a first-come first-serve basis?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
Besides the Ocean of Time: reflections on the book
The first paragraph to your first subheading, Aliens and the Pencil Monitor, describes the pencil monitor as dutied "to give out the pencils."
Is pencil monitoring a position within every infant school? Would the students be expected to keep ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
The Garden Awakening
I could grow whatever vegetables I chose,but I could not have livestock, though my son is allowed chickens. As for where I would have liked to farm, where else but for the West of
Ireland. I love it there.I think that Veronica would understand ...
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023
The English Meadow
The normal grazing land for cattle and sheep would be a field or part of one.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023
The Garden Awakening
The first paragraph to your second subheading, Practical Wisdom, admits to being a "vegetable grower, with an unfulfilled longing to be a smallholder."
It appears from your wizzleys that you've grown quite quite a range on your allotment. Do ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
The English Meadow
Your first subheading, What Were Meadows, describes cattle and sheep as not supposed to be let loose in meadows, whose vegetation fed cattle during winter months.
What and where were cattle and sheep permitted to graze without calling forth ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
Derdriu, No , I have no idea. What a typical waste of British tax payers' money on the super rich monarchy to have a different throne each time. That does not surprise me at all.
Thanks for the input,
Veronica, on 04/10/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
There's an interesting, 3-page article, Guide to the Coronation Service, available online through the Wayback Machine. It's listed as reference number 3 on the Wikipedia article titled Liber Regalis.
That article mentions that the King moving ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
BSG
Thank you so much for the explanation. I had never heard of this before.
Looking at it, despite being approx 500 years apart, the two books are certainly similar in presentation. I am astonished that our government has not made Tourism ...
Veronica, on 04/10/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
I suspect the Coronation Book is Liber Regalis, an illustrated book from the 1300s. It is used for coronations and royal funerals. I watched a documentary that showed it with rare permission to view it beneath Westminster. It is not on public ...
blackspanielgallery, on 04/09/2023
Revamping the Allotment
You are very much to the point. There have been moves to ban tires because of toxins leaching from them. This is very recent.
frankbeswick, on 04/08/2023
Revamping the Allotment
The Relaying the paths heading to your first image focuses on your photogenic tires.
What is necessary to do to keep them so clean-looking and in such firm shapes? And how much a lifetime use might they have as planters?
Also, would there be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/08/2023
Allotments: the people's gardens
Discounts are at the discretion of the local council, who are the landlords of most allotments. As for assistance for the handicapped, the council cannot afford to provide it, but many councils make plots available for the disabled and let ...
frankbeswick, on 04/08/2023
Why do Christians Believe that Jesus was Divine
I think that Jesus had the divine presence about him, and after the resurrection the jigsaw fell into place, and the disciples became aware of the significance of what he had been saying and doing.
frankbeswick, on 04/08/2023