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Loch Ness: new thinking about the monster
Conger eels are always threatening
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

Miracles
No, such knowledge is lacking
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

Rosa Hibernica, the Irish Rose
No, it is a help to tourists,to show which historic.person once dwelt there.
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

Walking in Langdale
Volunteers help the hut warden to clean the huts.
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

Biochar for Gardeners
Generally these are not emergency applications, but routine ones.
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

Biochar for Gardeners
Your next-last paragraph associates soil enhancement with biochar, compost, leaf mold, manure, rock dust and seaweed.
Do you employ them as problems arise or preventatively or both?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/04/2024

Walking in Langdale
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Clubs including volunteers in climbing-club hut maintenance and repair intrigues me.
Is the volunteer cleaning crew those who inhabit the hut or is it a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/04/2024

Rosa Hibernica, the Irish Rose
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Blue-plaque honors intrigue me.
Is the blue plaque the highest heritage honor or is it the only heritage-site honor.
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/04/2024

Miracles
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
The "other" John intrigues me.
Is there something else by which he is known? For example, is he integral to a Christian community and therefore is identified ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/04/2024

Loch Ness: new thinking about the monster
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Online sources emphasize American, European and Hawaiian conger eels. They furnish respective 10-, 6.6- and 4-foot (3.048-, 2.01168- and 1.2192-meter) lengths. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/04/2024

Celebrating Christmas
As far as I know, yes, it is the only commonwealth country to have a thanksgiving.
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

Devon, Glorious Devon
Fireflies are uncommon in Britain, and are mainly in the south. I have never seen them, as I am in North West Britain.
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

Miracles
The other John was living at the time that Revelations was written, which is about the end of the first century, so he could not have been present at the crucifixion.
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

Pilgrimage
I cannot think of such a failure to follow precedent.
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024

The Company of Trees
The grape grows well in southern Britain, which is becoming a wine growing zone. There does not seem to be one brand that has become a favourite.
frankbeswick, on 09/04/2024