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Mothers Day Gifts from Kids
Natasha, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
In particular, I appreciate how you provide a decorative gift, two practical gifts and an informational gift.
Is it possible that there may be a bird-feeder bird ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/06/2022
The Memorable Mother's Day Cookbook
georgettejohn, Thank you for practical information, pretty pictures and product lines.
It's quite an accomplishment that your mother was serving such delicacies as custard rice pudding, mincemeat cookies and raspberry pie.
Would you happen to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/06/2022
Wine and Country Gift Baskets for Mother’s Day
WriterArtist, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
In particular, I appreciate how much you respected your mother during her lifetime and how much you return to her memory after her lifetime.
Also, I ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/06/2022
Mothering Sunday in the UK
NanLT, Thank you for practical information, pretty pictures and product lines.
In particular, I appreciate the images that your text inspire of children picking wildflowers to be blessed and the scents, sights, tastes and textures that your ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/06/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
The third episode particularly appeals to me with insights into monastic activities, which include such practicalities as picking apples from monastery orchard trees.
Do we know what kind of apples are grown? And do we know if the apples are ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/06/2022
Growing up in a haunted house
Revisiting your wizzley caused me to recall something that I had meant to ask way back with the first reading and as part of the reactions that I shared below.
Did you and your mother discuss Lucy because you brought her up, or because she ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/06/2022
Meditation
Revisiting your wizzley called to mind something that I'd meant to ask way back with the first reading and with the reactions that I shared below.
In particular, I find it compelling that with all the distractions of the teen years and of the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/06/2022
The magic of Christmas and the transition phase we all have to go through
Revisiting your wizzley before, during and after the Christmas season 2021-2022 brought to mind something that I had intended to mention way back with the first reading and my first comments.
Christ Jesus indicated, as memorialized in the first ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/06/2022
Rushes
I have no personal preference.
I am unsure, but I think that non-recyclable plastic is burned.
frankbeswick, on 05/03/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
His name was Colum, and Columcille means Colum of the Church. Columba is the latinised form of the name. Latin is a language that has to transform words that it adopts. We have no knowledge of his preference in regards to his name.
frankbeswick, on 05/03/2022
Back to the Thames
Only recent generations of royals have been to university, and only one, Prince Charles, went to Cambridge. None attended Oxford. Prince Charles did not get A level [matriculation] grades high enough for Oxford or Cambridge, but I recall that ...
frankbeswick, on 05/03/2022
Back to the Thames
Am I correctly or erroneously tending to associate Cambridge more than Oxford with royals who get university degrees?
If so, it's unexpected to me that the latter would be listed before the former. But then perhaps it's respect to elders ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/02/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
Is there any indication anywhere whether Columba liked to be called Colmcille or Columba or something else?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/02/2022
Rushes
I'm seeing a lack of consensus on the internet as to reed, rush and sedge basketry. Those who appreciate reeds attribute to them the characteristics attributed by those who appreciate rushes and sedges. Which one are you most impressed with or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/02/2022
Rushes
Single use plastic is being seen as wasteful, harmful to wildlife and therefore unacceptable. Long-lasting plastics, such as Lego, will continue to be used. But plastics derived from fast-diminishing oil will fade out naturally.
frankbeswick, on 04/30/2022