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The Spectre at the Feast: reflections on the Peterhouse Ghost
It's interesting that there's so much knocking in regard to the Peterhouse Ghost.
Would anyone have recorded the number of knocks in an attempt to break some sound code? Would it be possible that it was Morse Code before there was Morse Code?!
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/30/2023
Hunting: how ethical is it?
Weeding by hand or using natural predators.
frankbeswick, on 03/30/2023
Coppicing
The surname may be short for Forrester, one who worked in the royal forests.it is a surname derived from an ancestor's job.
frankbeswick, on 03/30/2023
The Salt Path a review
You only begin to pay back when your earnings reach a certain level. Some people never pay it all back.
frankbeswick, on 03/30/2023
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