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Hunting: how ethical is it?
The next-to-last sentence to your last subheading, A Set of Rules, notes that "I personally will not kill an insect without good reason, but I kill some insects and slugs to protect my crops."
What is your preferred "weapon" when you must do ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/30/2023
Coppicing
The first paragraph under your second subheading, Woodland Management, describes a forest as "in Mediaeval times" denoting "an area where hunting rights were reserved by the king, and there are areas of forest today that are not remotely wooded ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/30/2023
The Salt Path a review
The second paragraph under your last subheading, The Triumph of Hope, indicates that the student loan to Moth is "payable only when and if your earnings reach a certain level."
Those earning levels must vary by intended profession and position ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/30/2023
The Power and the Glory: Who is a saint?
I think that this is an American saying.
frankbeswick, on 03/30/2023
Wildlife on the allotment
It is built as an animal hospital.
frankbeswick, on 03/30/2023
Religious Minorities in Iraq
You have made a key point. The term moral indicates a lower level of unity than the orthodox expression does, but nowhere is it clearly explained. Of course, many of the texts of the Assyrian 9oo(Nestorian) church were lost in the Mongol ...
frankbeswick, on 03/30/2023
The Power and the Glory: Who is a saint?
Your last sentence, about saints and sinners falling down and picking themselves up, calls to mind a saying here.
The saying goes that fall down, pick yourself up seven times or fall down, pick yourself up eight times. There is actually a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/29/2023
Wildlife on the allotment
The third paragraph under your next-to-last heading, Mammals, mentions that "a friend noticed that it was ill, probably poisoned by slug pellets, not on my plot are these poisonous things used, and he took it to a hedgehog sanctuary, and I have ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/29/2023
Religious Minorities in Iraq
Your next-to-last paragraph, Assyrian Christians, indicates the latter's belief in a "moral union" of Jesus Christ's divine and spiritual natures.
Is there some indication somewhere in their beliefs or in their interactions, such as at Ephesus, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/29/2023
The Salt Path a review
College is used more broadly on this side of the Atlantic. It can denote a university level institution, like Oxford colleges, but it can denote a further education college, which offers courses for students from sixteen years old upwards. I ...
frankbeswick, on 03/29/2023
The Salt Path a review
Your paragraph with the information about regenerative horticulture comments that the writer's husband "would return to college;"
On this, western (Atlantic) pond side college indicates a higher-education institution that offers only the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/29/2023
A Quiet Corner of Ireland
The word ceremonial denotes those counties which were nearly a thousand years old, they were established by the Normans as administrative units. Some still remain as administrative counties, e.g. Cornwall and Devon.others remain in a truncated ...
frankbeswick, on 03/27/2023
The Salt Path a review
I think that it is a degree in its own right.
frankbeswick, on 03/27/2023
A Quiet Corner of Ireland
Thank you!
Is it possible for a county to re-organize from ceremonial to administrative or from administrative to ceremonial?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/27/2023
The Salt Path a review
The second paragraph in the last subheading, The Triumph of Hope, mentions regenerative horticulture.
Would that be a general undergraduate or a specialized graduate degree?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/27/2023