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A Day at the Tatton Flower Show
The first paragraph to your first subheading, Gettting on the Show, cautions that "It was too late for me to grow anything for the stand, though I grew for my previous entry, but what the society wanted was someone who could talk to the public; ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/07/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
Thank you, Frank and Veronica!
So it's the same as here.
It may have been misleading when I mentioned below heavy, laced, mid-calf-high, military style boots. That might be the urban footwear of Unitedstatesians in the military or reserves or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/07/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
For walking in urban situations I use trainers, but country walking needs boots.
frankbeswick, on 04/07/2023
The Potato Growers' Curse
Quite right about the poor being made to feel full. I do not know why they were named lumped.
frankbeswick, on 04/07/2023
The Potato Growers' Curse
The next-to-last paragraph in your second subheading, What to do, mentions that "The Irish potato famine occurred because the Irish peasants grew a variety called the Lumper, which was a large, starchy, flavourless variety that sold well to the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/06/2023
Christian Hermits
The Carthusians have no female branch. I have never heard of women wearing hair shirts. With their sensitive skins hair shirts would be quite painful for women.
frankbeswick, on 04/06/2023
Into Thin Air: the Shepton Mallet Mystery
No remains have been found, and how would we identify them if they were. I don't think that they would have held a funeral service. He was not a popular man. Who mourns a pirate?
frankbeswick, on 04/06/2023
The Gardeners' Foe: dealing with slugs
Boddington's is best.
frankbeswick, on 04/06/2023
The Flora of the Shore
Stones have often been taken in great numbers for building use, to the detriment of the shoreline.
frankbeswick, on 04/06/2023
A day at the Harrogate Flower Show
There are plenty more places to see yet.
frankbeswick, on 04/06/2023
Christian Hermits
The last paragraph in the third subheading, The Hermit's Life, mentions hair shirt-wearing.
Would female Carthusians wear a hair shirt?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/05/2023
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
Thank you for the tip about different-sized vegetables. I did notice the different-sized carrot and had thought, Wow! not looking like an assembly line is photogenic and undoubtedly tastier!
St. Patrick's Day meant making a Veronica-recipe ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/05/2023
Into Thin Air: the Shepton Mallet Mystery
Donna Leon's recentest book, So Shall You Reap, has the perpetrator bury his victims in the back yard to his palazzo. The crime scene is from the 20th-century years of the Red Brigade. At least bone remains last to the present-day.
Would there ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/05/2023
Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food
The different-sized pieces of vegetables reduce and help the sauce. If you look at the picture, you will see a long carrot and short circular carrots. The potatoes are different sizes too.
If you can manage to find some soda bread to serve it ...
Veronica, on 04/05/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
Good footwear is very very important in the North West of England.
For hikes, in my family we wear good waterproof hiking boots laced up with a cushioned back. For my daily life i wear hiking trainers ( training shoes ) water proof and with a ...
Veronica, on 04/05/2023