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An insect friendly garden
The daffodils bloomed last week.
That week and the week before black cherry and serviceberry bloomed even as Callery pear, which usually blooms along with the other two white-flowered bloomers, bears nothing yet.
This week grape hyacinth, pink ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/09/2023
The Gardens of the British Working Class: a review
Jack London is well known over here.
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2023
Ministry in the church:women bishops
Eventually we will get a female archbishop, but I suspect not in my time.The decision on appointment will be taken by the monarch on advice from his ministers.
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2023
Understanding Biblical Literature
Proverbs is a usefulaid to prayerful reflection.
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2023
The Gardens of the British Working Class: a review
This is a thought stimulating account, but I do not know why he did not write about America.
Interestingly, my grandfather once had to use a soup kitchen. He arrived in London after World War One with just the clothes he was wearing, a travel ...
frankbeswick, on 03/09/2023
Ministry in the church:women bishops
Online sources identify the British monarch and the archbishop of Canterbury as the respective supreme governor and the most senior cleric in the Church of England.
Will the acceptance of women as bishops imply or involve a female archbishop? ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/08/2023
Understanding Biblical Literature
The last sentence in the last paragraph under the last subheading ends intriguingly about the varied usefulness of the varied books in our beloved Bible.
Would you find Proverbs a useful guide?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/08/2023
The Gardens of the British Working Class: a review
Jack London, most famously author of Call of the Wild, committed himself to and then ultimately rejected communist and socialist systems.
The book Jack London: Novels and Social Writings, published as Library of America series book 7 and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/08/2023
The July allotment
Yes. After leaving them to lie by the pond to allow pond life to crawl to safety in the water thebrakings were composted.
frankbeswick, on 03/08/2023
The July allotment
The second paragraph in your third subheading, Soil and Water, considers pond weed that gets daily raked.
What happens to the rakings? Would they be moved into the compost pile?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/08/2023
The allotment
They were worn out tyres donated by the motor repair shop where I had my car serviced. As the repair shop had to pay to have them taken away, the shop was only too happy to have them taken away for free by me..
frankbeswick, on 03/08/2023
Woodsman: a review
As farvas I know birch of various species is a gòd firewood, but also the sap of buriches in general makes gòd wine, though it is not as tasty as maple syrup. I suspect that birch wine is often made by combinimng and fermenting birch sap with ...
frankbeswick, on 03/08/2023
Between Christian and Pagan: a review
Paganism has never been united or organised. It cannot agree on the identity of the deity, thus it could provide no resistance to Christianity, which was structured and resilient.mason
frankbeswick, on 03/08/2023
The Gardens of the British Working Class: a review
There have always been people who sold seeds and seedlings, and seed saving is an ancient skill. I don't recognize the condition ofbthe homeless described in your last sentence. Is this a purely American situation?
frankbeswick, on 03/08/2023
The allotment
The raised-bed tires are photogenic. They look like they never have had contact with any dirt or paved surfaces.
Did you have them cleaned before installing them or were they bought or gotten new?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/08/2023