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Walking the Length of Britain

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Perhaps that first walker in 1879 also set the custom then of stopping at Tan Hill inn?!

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

Walled Gardens: a review

There indeed must be some growers in the British Isles. The BBC Gardeners World magazine numbers among its online articles "How to grow pineapples"! The aforementioned source offers as growing sites indoor conservatories, greenhouses or ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

Where was Jesus Born

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Sepphoris intrigues me because of that Salt Lake City Library book. Salt Lake City kept two books -- the one listed above, the other listed below -- that I ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

The Royal Horticultural Society

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Education and training can deepen one's appreciation of plants or initiate that appreciation. Does RHS membership become available only to those already ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

The Resurrection of Jesus

Thank you for the comment below in correction of my previous observation. English Wiktionary gives as respective meanings "small" and "ask for, borrow" for the names Paul and Saul. Might St. Paul have chosen that name because of feeling small ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

Cheadle Hulme History Walk, Cheshire

Thank you for inviting us along on such an educational, historic, pleasant walk. Your photos are so clear and so well-focused, that the green foliage and the white walls, especially in the last in-text image, are bright- and clean-looking. The ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

The Remote Islands of Britain

The northern isles have poor soil, so they must import some foodstuffs.

frankbeswick, 5 days ago

The Remote Islands of Britain

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Stormy air, stormy land, stormy waters cause me to consider how self-sufficient the remote isles-ers can be. Is it possible for remote isles-ers to drink ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

The Gathering Tide: a review

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Cumberland and Northumberland border the Scottish counties of Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire and Berwickshire. Does the aforementioned quintet similarize one ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

The English Meadow

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. Sheep eating seaweed in Orkney isles appeals to me. Does that seaweed leave green stains around their mouths or on their fleece and hooves?

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

Review of Paul: a biography

Jewish believers accept a Jewish Messiah even as they are not in agreement as to when or where. Is it within Christian tradition that there may be a Jewish Messiah for Jewish people or might that Messiah role only be filled by Jesus Christ ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

Late Winter in the Garden

Three comment boxes down you count among "supplemented natural soil enhancers" leaf mould, manure and seaweed. Does compost figure with the same standing as the aforementioned trio?

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

Key Ideas in Catholicism

The Church also does well in the missions that are available, whereby one contributes to making a difference, such as through the food that thanks the "haves" with nice fundraising fish tries and that works with the "have nots" through food ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

Walled Gardens

Thank you for your comment in answer to my previous observation and question. Online sources carry interesting images and information about Plas Cadnant. English Wikipedia designates as current owner Anthony Tavernor. The latter devotes much ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago

English Identities

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question. English Wikipedia describes Wild Geese as Jacobite army soldiers doing military service in continental Europe, especially France and Spain. That article does ...

DerdriuMarriner, 5 days ago