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Winter into Spring
The last paragraph under your first subheading, Repairs to the Greenhouse, considers that "This year I am going to try new plants, aubergines I hope. You see, my daughter-in-law grew up in Portugal,where these were part of her diet. I have never ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/03/2023
Can You be Rational and Religious?
The second paragraph under the first subheading, Religion and Rationality, concludes that "Islam at its best hosted a great philosophical tradition derived from Greek thought."
Would that Greek influence have passed by way of pharaonic Egypt? ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/03/2023
The Storms in North West Britain
Probably, but I don't know it.I suspect that Scotland's rainiest place is near Cape Wrath on the North West tip. BlaenaeFfestiniog just at thevsouthern edge of Snowdonia is renowned for rain and has a claim for the honour. As for Ireland,the ...
frankbeswick, on 04/01/2023
The Storms in North West Britain
The first paragraph to your first subheading, The extent and severity of the storm, describes Seathwaite as "rainiest place" in England.
Would there be a place even rainier in Ireland, Scotland or Wales?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/31/2023
Walking on the Lleyn
Thebfishing industry round there is very limited, not because of gales,but because tourism is more lucrative. The biggest fishing enterprise around there is a huge shellfish farm on the Laefan Sands.
frankbeswick, on 03/31/2023
Did Jesus Exist?
We have no certainty on what Jesus looked like.
frankbeswick, on 03/31/2023
English Hedges
That is about right for the height of many farm hedges.
frankbeswick, on 03/31/2023
The Spectre at the Feast: reflections on the Peterhouse Ghost
I cannot decide on how ghosts communicate, sorry. A suicide is always a tragedy rather than an evil being.
frankbeswick, on 03/31/2023
Walking on the Lleyn
The last paragraph to your first subheading, The Lleyn, describes southwesterly gales that herald the west peninsula's scary moniker as Hell's Mouth.
Would those gales compromise any attempts at coastal locals to earn their livelihood from ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/31/2023
The Salt Path a review
We take gcse qualifications at six term, then move to further education at college, when we take advanced level gee, which is taught at sixth form college or further education college, and these care preparatory to university. Degrees are ...
frankbeswick, on 03/31/2023
Did Jesus Exist?
One of your product lines is a book with an image of a blue-eyed Jesus.
Is there some tradition about Jesus Christ having blue eyes?
Some Eurasian traditions make him red-haired and either hazel-eyed or with one eye a different color from the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/31/2023
English Hedges
The last paragraph under your second subheading, Laying Hedges, cautions that "The only problem is deer, which can leap over hedges, and so the height of the hedge needs to be raised if there is a deer problem."
Hedges on this, western-pond ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/31/2023
The Spectre at the Feast: reflections on the Peterhouse Ghost
The fourth paragraph to your second subheading, A cacophony of responses, bears the information that "Some tentatively linked the ghost with a college official who committed suicide three hundred years ago, and they noted that the window by ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/31/2023
The Salt Path a review
Your comment that "I taught at sixth form colleges, which prepare students for university education" intrigues me.
Is a student in 6th-form college just a student there or might that student also be a high-schooler?
This, western (Atlantic) ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/31/2023
The Spectre at the Feast: reflections on the Peterhouse Ghost
No one recorded the knocks. I doubt that it was Morse, as Morse is an agreed socially constructed system that has to be learned.
frankbeswick, on 03/31/2023