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Bollington, Cheshire Well Dressings July 2016
Veronica, Thank you for sharing beautiful, traditional well dressings with us. How do they get the whites in the final product so white? How does the clay color (here it's so red!) not bleed through? What happens to the artwork after seven days? ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2018
Keep Christ in Christmas
blackspanielgallery, Are there special French- or Spanish-influenced Christmas observations in the French Quarter or elsewhere, outside New Orleans? Which Bethlehem had the entire town as a nativity set? Was the driving and walking tour of ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2018
Shinrin-Yoku: Forest Bathing Year-Round, Indoors and Outdoors, for All
dustytoes, Oceans indeed can create forest bathing-like wellness because of the negative ions from roaring, rushing waters! You also can get forest bathing-like wellness from the air-purifying plants, essential oils, vegetables and mountain ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2018
Shinrin-Yoku: Forest Bathing Year-Round, Indoors and Outdoors, for All
blackspanielgallery, Hot-spring baths follow forest bathing at any of Japan's 62 forest therapy bases. Dr. Li's explanation of the way that "nature does strange things that benefit humans" is energy from negative ions and oxygen releases. He ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/14/2018
The wildlife of an allotment site
There is a sign that says public footpath. They are marked on maps. There are also permissive paths, which are open due to the goodwill of a landowner. A bridleway is a path on which horses maybe ridden. There are also, mainly in the south, ...
frankbeswick, on 06/14/2018
Thinking about Naledi
Very interesting article.
MBC, on 06/14/2018
The wildlife of an allotment site
That is interesting. I certainly would love to walk some of the footpaths I've seen mentioned.
dustytoes, on 06/14/2018
North of England dialect vocab list
Fascinating! Lincolnshire was heavily settled by Anglo-Saxons, but has still retained an ancient counting system. What is interesting is that the Lincolnshire area was also settled by Swedish incomers during the time of the Norse invasions, yet ...
frankbeswick, on 06/14/2018
The wildlife of an allotment site
In the United Kingdom we have a network of public footpaths that go through private property such as farm land, which count as roads, and anyone is free to walk on them, but that does not stop some landowners from obstructing them.The local ...
frankbeswick, on 06/14/2018
The wildlife of an allotment site
Ha ha... yes the things we are capable of at 18! So you are allowed to walk through land that belongs to someone where cows are grazing?
dustytoes, on 06/14/2018
Shinrin-Yoku: Forest Bathing Year-Round, Indoors and Outdoors, for All
I've always known trees are special. Never heard of forest bathing though. Since there are no beautiful forests where I live, I hope the ocean can create a similar wellness.
dustytoes, on 06/14/2018
Shinrin-Yoku: Forest Bathing Year-Round, Indoors and Outdoors, for All
It is amazing how different cultures have developed different customs. I recall the time when there were bath houses, literally bathing in that case, in Hot Springs, Arkansas with mineral rich waters from the Earth. They may be there still. ...
blackspanielgallery, on 06/14/2018
North of England dialect vocab list
I agree. Infact Lincolnshire which is the other side of the country to Wales has a similar counting system.
Veronica, on 06/14/2018
North of England dialect vocab list
I was speaking about there being localization within Cumbric. The precise boundaries between Celtic dialects is not known. But what you have said about Wiltshire indicates to me that the old idea that all the Britons spoke Welsh is false.
frankbeswick, on 06/14/2018
North of England dialect vocab list
Wiltshire though isn't what you would call "localised to Cumbric" . There was obviously more movement between parts of England than we would have thought.
Veronica, on 06/14/2018