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Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food

Wow! Your Easter feast inspires me to imagine it for this western-pond side too. Might you make the below-mentioned recipes available so that I may make them Veronica-style? What ice cream should I serve? (My plans for Easter with colcannon, ...

DerdriuMarriner, 29 days ago

Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food

Easter is our main religious feast and I always do an English roast leg of lamb, with an apricot and fresh rosemary glaze. Easter Dessert is always an apple dessert , usually apple shortbread with ice cream and also a chocolate mini egg ...

Veronica, 29 days ago

Flooding in Britain; what needs to be done

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observations and question. Books that I have been reading about global chill, global thaw have herded among extreme weather-unfriendly strategies honing our world's peat ...

DerdriuMarriner, 29 days ago

10 Colors Named After Artists

Thank you for such a fact-filled, fun, functional foray through world-favorite colors! The Matisse portrait and its colorful interpretation particularly interest me even as the other nine inspire me to investigate all your informative ...

DerdriuMarriner, 29 days ago

Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food

Thank you for all the marvelous, wonderful, wondrous recipes. It's inspirational itinerating my way through the Lenten fast by daily Bible readings in the languages that I know -- there's now an online audio Bible in Quechua/Runa Shimi! -- and ...

DerdriuMarriner, 29 days ago

England's Own Anthem

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DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2026

Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food

Ty for your kind comments . Much appreciated . I have always believed in keeping alive the food of our ethnic forebears . I cooked an Irish Pork Coddle for St Patrick's Day . It was so good. My husband has asked can we have this again. I ...

Veronica, on 03/21/2026

Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food

Delicious ideas! Every year I consult this wizzley even as I commit myself to at least one dish counting among the comestibles for my favorite St. Patrick's Day. Thank you for all the marvelous, wonderful, wondrous recipes that ensure happy ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/21/2026

Thyroid Cancer - What To Expect When You've Been Diagnosed

It can be inheritable. I believe about 10% of thyroid cancer are from inherited genetic factors. The rest are things such as obesity, being exposed to radiation when young, among other factors.

CountrySunshine, on 03/20/2026

Balnamoon Skink ; Irish food

St Patrick's day is tomorrow. Happy feast and enjoy some of these foods .

Veronica, on 03/16/2026

Masked Ringtail Possums (Pseudochirulus larvatus) in Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

Google AI identifies as masked-ringtail-possum drinkables and edibles fresh, moist, soft-tipped, young eucalyptus leaves even as masked ringtail possums ingest fresh, moist, young bottlebrush, eucalyptus and tea-tree flowers and fruits. Those ...