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Belfast; Titanic Hotel
Revisiting this wizzley and the wizzley A Nice Cup of Tea by your brother calls to mind something that I'm considering concerning tea and that I have some questions for you and your brother (I already asked him in the comments section of the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/26/2022
A Nice Cup of Tea
Revisiting your wizzley brings to a mind a current dilemma about tea-drinking.
I'm considering a homemade version of the Starbucks chai latte with a shot of espresso. Starbucks employs Tazo chai concentrate, which most internet sources call ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/26/2022
Rushes
Do east-ponders ever incorporate rushes into cultivated and natural gardens? If so, what do you consider attractive, friendly combinations with them? And is rush a plant that responds well to being grown inside on shady east-, north- or west ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/26/2022
Back to the Thames
Are boat race rules amenable to alteration or removal or are they in essence carved in stone? I wonder if it is possible that the Olympic take against cutting in someday will spread to affect the Oxford-Cambridge race.
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/26/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
Did Columba ever share anything in particular that will make Iona as it once was or that we might recognize somewhere else?
In other words, I wonder whether Columba identified something beautifully, pervasively, uniquely pastoral -- since you ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/26/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
It is a rock arch sculpted by the sea off the great cliffs of Donegal.
The prophecy of Columcille speaks only of Iona, but there is a lasting Christian hope that in the eschatological future to which God is working all that is good and lost ...
frankbeswick, on 04/26/2022
Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles: a review
frankbeswick, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
The items in the image to the left of your title appear, beautifully, mesmerizingly, like combinations of metals shaped into something horseshoe-like and rocky ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/25/2022
Back to the Thames
The race was held in Cambridgeshire to prevent large urban crowds in London spreading covid. I cannot see why authorities tried to impede spectators. I think that they were nervous of crowds spreading disease and therefore exerted more power ...
frankbeswick, on 04/23/2022
Rushes
Killing bees was regarded as a necessary way of getting access to honey. I do not think that the monks killed lightly and they probably had alternative steps available as a refuge. Certainly the monks never seemed short of bees.
frankbeswick, on 04/23/2022
Rushes
The article A Hudson Valley bee skep, as a Garden photo of the day by Michelle Gervais through the finegardening website describes skeps as illegal for us west-ponders because harvesting the honey means destroying the bees.
Finegardening is ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/22/2022
Back to the Thames
Where and why was the race held in Cambridgeshire?
And why were spectators not welcome to what can be considered a popular, spirit-lifting spectator sport in 2021, after 2020 when so many things ceased entirely or shut down temporarily?
It ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/22/2022
Non-Alcoholic Party Drinks
Revisiting your wizzleys brought to mind what I'd meant to ask when first reading this article.
Do you consider sparkling waters among possibilities for non-alcoholic party drinks?
Kroger, for example, has a lovely, reasonable-priced line with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/22/2022
Flooding in Britain; what needs to be done
Rivers are centrally managed by the environment agency, who work with local authorities
frankbeswick, on 04/21/2022
Rushes
They are woven and knotted into tight strands. I know of no picture of the inside of a skep.
frankbeswick, on 04/21/2022
Back to the Thames
Some spectators cycle down the riverside paths to keep up with boats
frankbeswick, on 04/21/2022