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Aira Force, Cumbria
Aira - stony river bank
Veronica, on 08/21/2024
The Cataract Diaries
High streets are traditionally in England, the main street through a town where small businesses operate and shops
Veronica, on 08/21/2024
Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite,Cumbria
No school summer holidays do not include June here
Veronica, on 08/21/2024
The Potato Famine
An litir bheag means literally ...
the letter small
I.e. the small letter
Veronica, on 08/20/2024
Sandbach Crosses
Thank you to Frank and Veronica for comments below, on Aug 25, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day observations and questions.
New red sandstone appeals to me. Why is it called new?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
Aira Force, Cumbria
Thank you for your comment below, on Jul 17, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Your answer and your article advise us about Norse aspects. That legacy associates with such words as beck for "stream" and fors for ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
The Cataract Diaries
Thank you for your comment below in answer, on Jul 11, 2017, to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Your answer advises us of "optician's shops on the high streets." What are high streets?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite,Cumbria
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Your answer advises us that "In the UK, the schools finish for only 5 or 6 weeks in summer, those weeks being end of July and August."
Do schools not have June ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
The Shrigley Heiress Abduction 1826 ; Cheshire
Thank you for your comment below, on Apr 18, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
That's a lovely photo -- taken by whom? -- of three lovely ladies. Your granddaughter has pink, traditional color for girl babies in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
Essex Days ; The White Hart, Witham,
The next-last subheading, March 1950, advises us that "A daring robbery took place in March 1950 when a thief boldly walked into the manager's office, took the keys to the safe and stole £400.00. This was a massive amount for the time and would ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
To Dig or Not to Dig; That Is the Question
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Your answer, to another observation and question, three comment boxes down, on Mar 3, 2017, discusses weed matting. Is that a mat made of weeds to place over ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
From tor to shore
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That Scots Gaelic has fewer dialects than Irish Gaelic intrigues me. Is it because Scots Gaelic is spoken by fewer people and in fewer regions of Scotland?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
Getting Children into Gardening
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.
Your answer Oct 13, 2019, three comment boxes down, employs the plural form, greenhouses, for Medwyn Williams.
Is there more than one greenhouse on one site or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
The Garden in the Fall
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The Arborist News article encourages arborists and land managers to add new organic material as the dead-wood habitat and retention pile gets unaesthetic and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024
Wilding: a review
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Competition from pigeons and wood pigeons concerns me. Do pigeons, turtle doves and wood pigeons eat the same foods and frequent the same woody plants?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/20/2024