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Book Review: Butchers by Todd Sullivan
Steve Rogerson, Thank you for the practical informations and product lines.
Can it not be possible that the chronological unfurling of events mirrors the way bureaucratic minds can operate? My favorite authors of novels and short stories with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/13/2020
Pilgrimage
Yes, trekking to midnight mass has something of the character of a pilgrimage. However, for me church is a mere quarter of a mile away. But I attend the day time mass at Christmas now. I have found that nowadays I need to get to bed earlier than ...
frankbeswick, on 02/13/2020
Buying Gold Coins: Are They Worth the Price?
Gold can be quite thin, probably just a few molecules thick. Think about a piece that is selectively gold plated, it is not really obvious the gold makes the piece slightly thicker where it is placed. Think microns, millionths of a meter, or ...
blackspanielgallery, on 02/12/2020
Pilgrimage
Hi Frank,
This is a nice piece. One pilgrimage in this area was, and still is albeit more difficult, to visit nine churches on Good Friday. The Catholic population is large enough that neighboring parishes are close, and several had multiple ...
blackspanielgallery, on 02/12/2020
Pilgrimage
Pilgrims retrieved slippers, otherwise the journey home would have been uncomfortable.
My mother was fascinated by the history of English Catholicism in the penal period, and as the shrine stayed in Catholic hands throughout the period she was ...
frankbeswick, on 02/12/2020
Pilgrimage
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practical informations and product lines.
As I mentioned elsewhere, my favorite Marian appearance is Knock: how blessed your wife and her family must feel to call that area home. My second is Fatima (pronounced ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/12/2020
KZine Issue 26: Review of January 2020 Issue
SteveRogerson, Thank you for the practicalities and products.
At least you figured out Elijah's Memorial with the second reading. (I still haven't figured out whether anyone or anything got hurt on the last page of Robert Stone's story Helping, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/12/2020
Buying Gold Coins: Are They Worth the Price?
blackspanielgallery, Thank you for the practical information and product lines.
How thin is the layer of gold-plating on the 10-foot by 10-foot by 10-foot cube room?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/12/2020
Late Winter in the Garden
The only one I know is "The definition of a mine is a hole with a Cornishman in it."
frankbeswick, on 02/07/2020
Late Winter in the Garden
frankbeswick, Thank you for the practical information and the product lines.
I find it quite amusing where you say that "Some years ago I told my Irish mother-in-law that Andrew digs like an Irishman, which mean energetically and well." How is ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2020
How to Enjoy Wildlife at Kanha National Park?
pateluday, Thank you for the photos, practicalities and products.
Does Kanha not have blue Indian peafowl? I notice that it has cobras and Russell's vipers, against whose bites blue Indian peafowl feather steroids inhibit the poisonousness. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/07/2020
St Tydecho's Churches in West Wales
JoHarrington, Thank you for the practical information and product lines.
Is there a story that tells what happened to the Exalted Ox on the Cemaes mountain ridge?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/06/2020
Anosmia - Can it be reversed ?
Indeed, Catholicism is a kind religion .
Veronica, on 02/05/2020
Anosmia - Can it be reversed ?
Veronica, for sick people lenten fasting is not recommended or required. He should exempt himself from fasting. Being ill is hard enough.
frankbeswick, on 02/05/2020
Anosmia - Can it be reversed ?
Thank you dearest BSG. Your kindly support always keeps me going.
My husband is doing very well . We now have 16 scents daily plus lavender pillow spray and room scents. The only scents he can't get are cinnamon and sage still . Interesting as ...
Veronica, on 02/05/2020