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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
A Quiet Corner of Ireland
Though l live in an area that is part of the ceremonial county of Lancashire I had not heard of this happening.
For your information THE UK has ceremonial, historic, counties and administrative ones. The administrative . county in which I live ...
frankbeswick, on 03/26/2023
Alderley Edge: Woods, Wizards and Mines
I have never heard of Cinderlad. Thanks.
frankbeswick, on 03/26/2023
A Quiet Corner of Ireland
Thank you!
Internet sources include the article Small English Town OVERRUN by spiders -- OMG!
It's thanks to the Wayback Machine that the article, from Nov. 14, 2016, still is accessible.
The spiders may have spun 30-plus feet (9.14 meters) ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/25/2023
Alderley Edge: Woods, Wizards and Mines
There's an Irish version of the Cinderella story. It's unusual in that it's about a cinderfellow (cinderfella?!) known as Cinderlad.
Would that be known on your, eastern (Atlantic) pond side or would it just be an Irish American invention?
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/25/2023
Loch Ness: new thinking about the monster
Recent studies have found no catfish or surgeon dna in the loch,but plenty of eel dna. Conger is a possibility, but it would not have an easy journey from the sea.
The situation in Loch Morar, which is very close. to the sea, is more conducive ...
frankbeswick, on 03/23/2023
A Quiet Corner of Ireland
Dictyna arundinacea. This is the only species with that type of web.
frankbeswick, on 03/23/2023
Loch Ness: new thinking about the monster
The catfish theory can be quite persuasive, particularly when couched in the early 20th-century sightings. Introduction in the 19th century by sport-loving men and oblivion in the 20th-century by world war-fighting men explains sightings between ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
A Quiet Corner of Ireland
The last paragraph under your first subheading, The Experience of North West Ireland, describes the beautiful webbing by veil web spiders.
Internet sources refrain from giving me any indication of how that arachnid looks and to what name he/she ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023
The Paranormal
There are so many issues wrapped up in this comment that I would need to do much reflection, and it is worth an article which touches on these issues.
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023
After the Election: what now for the United Kingdom?
Cornwall was involved in a war with the English kingdom of Wessex in the late first millenium and lost, so it was absorbed into England. Cornish independence would turn back the clock. I live a mile from the border of the Saxon kingdoms of ...
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023
Introducing Northern England
The Irish got everywhere, and there are clear migrant routes from one area to another. My local area has many people whose families came from County Mayo. The reason for this is when one person came to Manchester, for example, others joined ...
frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023