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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
Silence
There's another question that I had meant to ask, but for the computer crashing ;-{!
Your introductory paragraph mentions you all living in a terraced house.
This, western (Atlantic) pond side notes terraced house as a stand-alone habitation ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2023
Silence
The first paragraph under your third heading, The Desert Experience, considers caves above the Dead Sea as appropriate for Jesus Christ to retreat for 40 days.
Is there a particular cave that is thought to have hosted Him or would He have moved ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2023
Eat Like a Fish: a Review
I don't know these etymologies. But in Cornwall sardines were known as pilchards, though for marketing reasons they are now sold as Cornish sardines.
I have not eaten stargazie l pie, but I know what it is. The top half of the fishes protrude ...
frankbeswick, on 03/21/2023
Eat Like a Fish: a Review
NCIS: Hawai'i had an episode about the National Criminal Investigative Service's Special Agent Afloat Program on Navy carriers, ships and submaries.
The episode indicated that someone waterphobic -- of which the NCIS Special Agent who must ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/20/2023
Invasive Species in Britain
I have heard no mention of them,so they probably are not here.
frankbeswick, on 03/17/2023
What is organic growing?
The nobles were probably unaware of the dangers of what they were doing.
frankbeswick, on 03/17/2023
Christ and the Mythical Consciousness
The real Arthur lived in the so called dark ages, so it is apt to present him as living then.
frankbeswick, on 03/17/2023
The Salt Path a review
Yes those are the rules.
frankbeswick, on 03/17/2023
The Salt Path a review
Correction, my daughter lives with her husband and son in North Wales, and there is a grand daughter on the way. There are no farms in the offing, as my daughter is doing so well as a therapist she would not need a career change.
I hope that ...
frankbeswick, on 03/17/2023
Invasive Species in Britain
An arborist-related webinar this week, through UMass-Amherst Extension's Urban Forestry Today, covered the expected pests for 2023.
Have you all over on the eastern (Atlantic) pond side had any experiences with zigzag sawflies? They represent ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/17/2023
What is organic growing?
Your first paragraph about the poisons in Victorian and Edwardian agriculture and horticulture made me think of the white make-up that was so popular with the noble and royal classes during the 16th century.
Were the nobles and royals not ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/17/2023
Christ and the Mythical Consciousness
The differentiation below is most helpful regarding that thin line between understanding what is history, what is legend, what is myth.
On a humorous note, Italian slang lately manifests Che mitico! and è mitico! along lines where one wouldn't ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/17/2023
The Salt Path a review
The comment below actually should have included another question, somewhat related, somewhat unrelated, about grammar.
This, western side of the (Atlantic) pond tends toward "your sister Veronica" and "your wife Maureen" if you have one sister ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/17/2023