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Growing on the Edge
They were thought to be very easy to grow.
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023
Anglesey: Wales' largest island
Mainly it is used by people who are foraging on their own land, as UK law forbids you to dig up a plant by its roots except on your own land or with landowner's permission.
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023
Anglesey: Wales' largest island
The fourth paragraph to your second subheading, Newborough, considers silverweed as a starchy-rooted source for carbohydrates.
Is silverweed used nowadays culinarily, cultivationally or medicinally?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
Growing on the Edge
The second paragraph under your second subheading, Lazy Beds, describes potatoes as being designated as "lazy" roots.
Was it considered easier or more difficult to grow year after year such edibles as potatoes? Why would potatoes be termed as ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
Alderley Edge: Woods, Wizards and Mines
The third paragraph under your third subheading, Who was the Wizard, concludes that "Interestingly the legend of the sleeping king and warriors is found at other sites in Britain, such as the Eildon hills in Southern Scotland, and that it is ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
England and Scotland: a personal reflection
This question is somewhat related because it regards Scotland, somewhat unrelated since it regards Wales.
The play Macbeth makes Fleance move all the way to Wales, where he ultimately prompts the Stuart royal line. Online sources mention this ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
Spring again
Cardinals and grackels have been in the south yard foraging -- among box elder, Chinese chestnut and silver maple seeds -- for whatever the already-growing grass shelters. I hear bluebirds, ovenbirds and tufted titmice even as I not yet see ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
Introducing Northern England
The third paragraph to your first subheading, The Nothern Identity, contains as its last sentence the observation that " As you would expect, the north west has strong ties with Ireland, for many Irish have over the centuries settled there ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
After the Election: what now for the United Kingdom?
There's a map at the Government of the Netherlands site. The progression from the home page to topics to Brexit to Questions and answers permits the map, in answer to the question, Which countries make up the United Kingdom?
The site places ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
Countdown to Crisis: the looming electoral problems in the United Kingdom
The best way forward for the UK is a major political revamp where we collectively reform the apportioning of powers. However, you mention the Channel Isles, but not many people know that they are not in the UK, as they, like the Isle of Man, are ...
frankbeswick, on 03/21/2023
After the Election: what now for the United Kingdom?
We have no
English parliament because of obstruction by the Scottish Nationalists. The prime minister was going to institute an
English parliament, but the Nationalists objected that a clause in the treaty that united England and Scotland gave ...
frankbeswick, on 03/21/2023
Silence
In the UK a terraced house is one of a line of houses that joins on to houses on either side. So I share side walls with my neighbours. But the word brownstone is not part of
UK parlance.
frankbeswick, on 03/21/2023
Silence
There is no specific cave, and it is unlikely that he would have moved from cave to cave, as there would be no point in doing so.
frankbeswick, on 03/21/2023
Countdown to Crisis: the looming electoral problems in the United Kingdom
Your final subheading, Consequences, considers in its final paragraph "secessionist tendencies" in the Orkney and the Shetland islands.
Would it be possible for the United Kingdom to restructure into something somewhat like Spain, where Euzkadi ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2023
After the Election: what now for the United Kingdom?
The first paragraph under your third subheading, Problems of Representation, describes Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as each having their own parliaments.
Why is it that England has no such parliament?
It seems that Cornwall and the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2023