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Flooding in Britain; what needs to be done
frankbeswick, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
A complex, complicated problem that can be simplified -- as you do -- to causes (weather and soil conditions), contributing factors (cultivation, development) ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/21/2022
Make Your Own Chips in the Microwave? I Just Found Out That Is a Thing
Regi_B, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
It looks like the first of the three chips makers would be the easiest to keep clean and not show unappetizing stains that may result naturally, unnaturally from ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/21/2022
Arborsculpture Designs Are Beautiful And Practical
Revisiting your wizzley brought to mind two questions that I'd meant to ask at the first reading.
What tree species is arbor-sculpted into the fanciful seated figure, and what is the source of the image?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/21/2022
Understanding Cockney Rhyming Slang
SteveRogerson, Thank you for practical information, pretty pictures and product lines.
It boggles the mind to think of how these cryptic phrases begin and circulate and endure.
Why is it that pork backslanged is kayrop, not krop? The latter is ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/21/2022
Movie Review: Night Monster (1942)
StevenHelmer, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
The library system here does not have Night Monster catalogued amongst its Blu-ray and DVD collections. So I expect not to be watching what could have been a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/21/2022
5 Things To Do In Atlantic City
Revisiting your wizzley calls to mind a 2021-published book that pertains to Atlantic City attractions.
It's The Last Diving Horse in America: Rescuing Gamal and Other Animals – Lessons in Living and Loving, by animal rescue advocate, animal ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/21/2022
Rushes
The image of the skep superficially compares somewhat like something made of wicker bound with metal. A more studied, second look divulges that it's rushes bound with rushes rounded like rings.
How do the ring-like, rounded rushes stay in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/21/2022
Back to the Thames
Do the outdoor observers stay in one place? Or is it possible to keep up with the boaters by "a moveable feast" -- phrase borrowed unrelatedly ;-D from Ernest Hemingway -- of walking from boat point to boat point to boat point?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/21/2022
Travelling by steam train
Our land is smaller than the USA, so we don't have anything on an American scale. The steepest railway is the funicular East Cliff Railway near Hastings in Kent, which has a gradient of 78%. The steepest steam line is the narrow gauge Snowdon ...
frankbeswick, on 04/16/2022
Travelling by steam train
Revisiting your wizzley brings to mind something that I'd meant to ask back in June 17, 2017, when I read the other comments (which I always do).
dustytoes brings up the train ride up Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. That ride can be quite an ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/15/2022
Movie Review: Scooby Doo! Stage Fright (2013)
StevenHelmer, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
The library system here does have Scooby Doo Stage Fright amongst its Blu-ray and DVD collections. So I expect to be viewing it, along with other Scooby Doo ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/15/2022
The ‘Ice Bucket Challenge” – How Do You Know A Charity Is Legitimate?
Revisiting your wizzley called to mind a question that has come up what with all the changes since 2020.
Is the ice bucket challenge being augmented by fundraising for COVID, continued for ALS or utilized for both or other health concerns?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/15/2022
Who was the real Robin Hood?
SteveRogerson, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
The earlier sources that you reference are persuasive.
In particular, it intrigues me where you say, per the Nottingham Arrow April 2010 Robin Hood special ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/15/2022
Mardi Gras Art and Crafts with Peacock Decorations
WriterArtist, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
In particular, I appreciate the wall hanging and painting and then the carnival mask and the sculpture and statue.
The DIY oil painting can be such a great ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/14/2022
An Unusual Pub Crawl in Rome
Chestnut flavoured beer! Brilliant. That's a beer flavouring that I had not known about.
frankbeswick, on 04/14/2022