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Anthropology and Archaeology

Mar 9, 2019Mar 2019

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This may not be news to American members, but it should be interesting to the rest of us, Did America have a Bronze Age.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Mar 9, 2019Mar 2019

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Another world, and one with both beauty and chilling drama at that.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Mar 3, 2019Mar 2019

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This is one everyone should watch. Though it is especially sad to me because the wonder of having pourable stone to work with, was one of life's creative joys when I was young and used to build gardens for people, but I guess it is something I can ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Mar 3, 2019Mar 2019

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Could be the last word on a small mystery.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Mar 3, 2019Mar 2019

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The river from the source to the sea. I have watch the Vltava flowing through Prague and it is majestic, so it is hard not to love this.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 28, 2019Feb 2019

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Grieg very slow and lyrical. Enough said.

Dandelion Hunters

Feb 26, 2019Feb 2019

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It must be spring my neighbour has lambs.

Feb 25, 2019Feb 2019

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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. H. G. Wells

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 24, 2019Feb 2019

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Northern hemisphere ? Fed up and bored with winter ? Shivering ? Why not go for a sun baked land where it so warm the heat soaks into your bones.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 23, 2019Feb 2019

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Sorry for posting one where neither the music nor the player is the most important thing, but I hope you will know why I just had to post this somewhere.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 21, 2019Feb 2019

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Beautifully simple bit of physics, this is fun learning.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 20, 2019Feb 2019

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I know this is well known and you have heard it before, but the setting is beautiful.

Feb 20, 2019Feb 2019

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MoonTiger just posted a beautiful photo of hanging succulent gardens on some balconies. This one is not as spectacular, but I thought it interesting because it is part of a garden someone was making on the old castle wall Silves Portugal. Don't know ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 19, 2019Feb 2019

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The Baldwin effect something new to me, and even if you know it , at least you get to listen to R. Dawkins.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 19, 2019Feb 2019

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Generally speaking I am not that keen on Handel, but this is something wonderfully simple from Xerxes.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 19, 2019Feb 2019

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Something really interesting happened long ago.

CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER

Feb 18, 2019Feb 2019

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If you like a film style rendering, then this version of E lucevan le stelle from Tosca with Jonas Kaufmann has to be seen. I am only sorry some early clapping intrudes at the end, because I think the orchestras final bars are a big part of the ...

Dandelion Hunters

Feb 18, 2019Feb 2019

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First frog-spawn of the year on the garden pond, I do not know how cold blooded creatures do it when there is ice on the pond some mornings.

Feb 18, 2019Feb 2019

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My garden has a wildlife pond, and today I spotted the first frog-spawn of the season, I do not know how the cold blooded creatures do it this early in the year, when there is ice round the pond edges some mornings.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 16, 2019Feb 2019

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I put this on the main page but it disappeared anyway. I just asked, that as the worlds habitats fragment does it seem likely that this sad little scene will become ever more common ?

Community Senate

Feb 16, 2019Feb 2019

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I just wrote a post and could not find a category that it really fitted in. I know that the site probably does not want to overburden the front page with too many detailed categories, but do you not think that "Environment " should at least be added ...

Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 16, 2019Feb 2019

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As the earths habitats fragmentate is this a sad story that will get ever more common.

Feb 14, 2019Feb 2019

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This is just one taken in the English Lake District, I got lucky with the light.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 13, 2019Feb 2019

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History handed down from history.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 12, 2019Feb 2019

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One for Darwin Day. Sit back and enjoy some exotic creatures that do and did live on islands.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 12, 2019Feb 2019

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This one is both history and science, and one for the ' fake moon landing nuts.'

Vegan\Vegetarian World

Feb 11, 2019Feb 2019

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What can you use as a substitute for milk in tea and coffee, I have tried soya but it tastes like sludge ?

Feb 10, 2019Feb 2019

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Here in the UK, the winter flowering Snowdrops (Galanthus ) and Winter Aconites (Eranthis hymalis ), both now at their hight. They grow in gardens but are widely naturalised, as here in the graveyard of the next village.

Dandelion Hunters

Feb 10, 2019Feb 2019

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Two of the little joys of the cold season here in the UK, are the winter flowering Snowdrops (Galanthus ) and Winter Aconites (Eranthis hymalis ), both now at their hight. They grow in gardens but are widely naturalised, as here in the graveyard of ...

Feb 10, 2019Feb 2019

Posted by Fernapple

Two of the little joys of the cold season here in the UK, are the winter flowering Snowdrops (Galanthus ) and Winter Aconites (Eranthis hymalis ), both now at their hight. They grow in gardens but are widely naturalised, as here in the graveyard of ...

Feb 5, 2019Feb 2019

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The Old Bridge, Prague, early on a winters morning.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Feb 3, 2019Feb 2019

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Something to think about perhaps, you hear a lot about this but don't often see hard facts.

Feb 3, 2019Feb 2019

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This one was taken in the mountains of Turkey, I like the stage scenery effect that the foreground hill make against the mountains behind.

Feb 2, 2019Feb 2019

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Autumn in the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus, I just like the way this looks like the perfect village to explore.

Dandelion Hunters

Feb 2, 2019Feb 2019

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Hellebore in the snow. Its cold out but the walk in the garden is still worth doing.

Feb 2, 2019Feb 2019

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Hellebore in the snow. Of course like most winter flowers the hellebores hang their heads to keep the weather out, until the end of the season when their are more pollinators, better weather and less time available. But this one alone was almost ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 30, 2019Jan 2019

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If its cold where you are, why not take a trip to the warm Down Under. This is an interesting story of some wonderful creatures, and the shot of a possum with babies makes it worth watching alone.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 30, 2019Jan 2019

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This though not long, this is a more thoughtful account of library at Alexandria than the usual glib accounts. Interesting.

Jan 28, 2019Jan 2019

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Another one from Charles Darwin. Not what you expect, perhaps. If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Silly, Random & Fun

Jan 28, 2019Jan 2019

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Why do people post short, retorical statements like. "Make every second count." To which I want to reply. " I was until you wasted twenty of them, especialy when your dots, .......... made me think there was something more." Except of course, if I do...

Jan 27, 2019Jan 2019

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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. Charles Darwin

Community Senate

Jan 27, 2019Jan 2019

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If I like a members post or comment they get points, hopefully, but do they still get points if I use one of the other icons on the menu such as "sad". To date I have been using other icons to comment on the content of the post/comment, not on the ...

Dandelion Hunters

Jan 27, 2019Jan 2019

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Found in the garden today, hibernating ladybirds.

Jan 27, 2019Jan 2019

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Found in the garden today, hibernating ladybirds. Hope they stay to eat the bugs next year.

Dandelion Hunters

Jan 27, 2019Jan 2019

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It has been a dry winter so far, but we did get a sprinkle of snow the other day, I turned the country into a wonderful sombre gray but still lovely monochrome painting.

Jan 27, 2019Jan 2019

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Its quite cold here now with a strong wind, so I spent an hour this morning hand weeding pots in the greenhouse. Its mainly Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta. What I wanted to know is, is this little menace the same problem in the US and Australia...

Community Senate

Jan 24, 2019Jan 2019

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I was just asked to approve a comment from a new member, as you sometimes are, so I did. Because it was not rude, hateful, or suspicious in any way, but it was a whole truck load of rambling woo and BS, which would normal make me want to be rude. So ...

Jan 22, 2019Jan 2019

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Quoting our own members again, a few days ago, in some comments about the early history of Christian mythology, Cutiebeauty wrote:- “It goes way back to the origin of ignorance... “

Dandelion Hunters

Jan 22, 2019Jan 2019

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Went into town today for some shopping. This is Louth from the surrounding fields, some time ago it was voted the best small market town in England, what it still has though is the tallest medieval parish spire in the country, and in the winter sun ...

Jan 21, 2019Jan 2019

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Hamamelis mollis the Witch Hazel is coming into flower in the garden now. It has a slight scent like Hyacinth and the strange but lovely flowers, as with most winter flowers, last for weeks. This is a form called 'Palida' I think.

Jan 20, 2019Jan 2019

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Thanks to several weeks of quite warm weather through the new year, the catkins on the hazels are early this year with us here in the UK. They look good now in the winter sun but we are just about to get the frost and snow hard. Not flowers as such ...

Dandelion Hunters

Jan 20, 2019Jan 2019

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Thanks to several weeks of quite warm weather through the new year, the catkins on the hazels are early this year with us here in the UK. They look good now in the winter sun but we are just about to get the frost and snow hard. (Also posted on ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 19, 2019Jan 2019

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This has so many ideas in it it will make your head spin at 90 degrees.

Jan 16, 2019Jan 2019

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. G. Bernard Shaw

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 16, 2019Jan 2019

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Maybe there is no easy way, especially to loose weight.

Jan 15, 2019Jan 2019

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This is from a video but still worth quoting. We should not pretend to know what no one can know, like religious people commonly do, that is a lie too. Aron Ra

Health & Happiness

Jan 13, 2019Jan 2019

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True or not? Where would you like to go ?

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 13, 2019Jan 2019

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Interesting bit about the early mammals, just in that gray area where classification shows its subjective side, and you feel the deep time and it mysterys even more.

Dandelion Hunters

Jan 13, 2019Jan 2019

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We are lucky here in the UK, in that the climate means that we can grow and naturalize Snowdrops, ( Galanthus ). Just coming through now, like an early promise of spring in mid winter. Also posted in Gardeners.

Jan 13, 2019Jan 2019

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We are lucky here in the UK, in that the climate means that we can grow and naturalize Snowdrops, ( Galanthus ). Just coming through now, like an early promise of spring in mid winter.

Philosophy & Meaning

Jan 11, 2019Jan 2019

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Biological genetic evolution can only react and never foresee. At some stage in human development; it does not much matter exactly when; the biological evolutionary ground work needed for the development of human language and culture had been ...

Silly, Random & Fun

Jan 5, 2019Jan 2019

Posted by Fernapple

This came in the post today, hand writen address, no name, no return address. Am I supposed to think it came from God, if so then it is very strange because it was sent to my father and you would think God would know he's been dead three years now.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 5, 2019Jan 2019

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This is a really interesting story, well told with some fun graphics, but warning you will need an open mind if you are vegan.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 5, 2019Jan 2019

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This will soon become a big issue if we are not careful.

Jan 4, 2019Jan 2019

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I think you will like this one if only because he is such a keen young man.

Jan 4, 2019Jan 2019

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Part of. - To His Coy Mistress By Andrew Marvell The grave’s a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 3, 2019Jan 2019

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This is a part of the life story not so often told, yet it is a good telling, enjoy.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Jan 3, 2019Jan 2019

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This is a really neat graphical telling of the human story, I really enjoyed the way it is presented.

Jan 1, 2019Jan 2019

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Happy new year, to all in the Gardeners group, and thank you for all that I learned from you in 2018. Especially that photos of the most beautiful gardens and flowers are not anything like as interesting, or going to get anything like the number of ...

Dec 31, 2018Dec 2018

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One thing that I have noticed, is that many of the people who say they believe in homeopathy, and even spend money on the products, fail to make the distinction between it and herbal medicine. Some herbal remedies of course do work and many are part ...

Dec 31, 2018Dec 2018

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What is wrong with wool, it comes from sheep does it not. Wait I will give you my opinion when I find my glasses.

Dec 31, 2018Dec 2018

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How wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land. Oliver Goldsmith

Dec 28, 2018Dec 2018

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My crab apples "Red Sentinel" often linger right through the winter, they cover the tree and look especially good with snow on them, or as here in bright winter sun. You could cook with them but they are beautiful just to look at, and the birds love ...

Dandelion Hunters

Dec 28, 2018Dec 2018

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Bright winter sun shining on crab apples. The last of the autumn.

Dec 26, 2018Dec 2018

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The apples and onions in store from the harvest, are now getting old. So the day after Xmas being a holiday here in the UK (boxing day), I took the time to make some pies to share with friends, especially my very good friend who cooked dinner for me ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 25, 2018Dec 2018

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Speculative perhaps but interesting none the less.

Dandelion Hunters

Dec 24, 2018Dec 2018

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Its a cool gray winter so far, suits the cool gray deer perhaps.

Dec 22, 2018Dec 2018

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With the relatively mild winters in the UK, we can overwinter a few things outside. So that I am still getting parsnips, leeks and sprouts, from the garden. And with a few late apples, plus peas and onions from storage, it looks like the makings of a...

General & Hellos

Dec 21, 2018Dec 2018

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For many years I have though that one of the saddest things was that it will take the skeptic/agnostic/atheist world centuries, to catch up with the great head start that the theists have in terms the arts and rituals, all those songs, paintings, ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 20, 2018Dec 2018

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Just a good story about sailing round the world.

Community Senate

Dec 20, 2018Dec 2018

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Admin especially or anyone who can help, a post has appeared on the gardeners page which looks very like a scam.

Dec 19, 2018Dec 2018

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A message for the festive season from E. Fitzgerald. Ah, fill the Cup:--what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our Feet: Unborn TO-MORROW, and dead YESTERDAY, Why fret about them if TO-DAY be sweet!

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 19, 2018Dec 2018

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Population growth.

Silly, Random & Fun

Dec 18, 2018Dec 2018

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OK if you do not like cute, don't watch this. Debussy "Clair de Lune" on Piano for 80 Year Old Elephant.

Silly, Random & Fun

Dec 18, 2018Dec 2018

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There are a lot of things to dislike about Christmas. I think that one of the worst is the patronizing statements like. “We must remember all those who have no family, and are spending Christmas alone.” Which is really annoying. Speaking as a ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 15, 2018Dec 2018

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If you thought that robotic ships were still a long way off?

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 11, 2018Dec 2018

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Five who no one believed. This one is about some you may know, some you wont, but science always tells good stories.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 10, 2018Dec 2018

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Maybe we will soon not need so many antibiotics?

Dec 10, 2018Dec 2018

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"When overseas you learn more about your own country, than the place you are visiting." Clint Borgen So......?

Dec 9, 2018Dec 2018

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Wintering a Tree Fern, in the north. Our first really cold weather this week and so its time to wrap up. Clockwise form top left: 1. Water and stake. 2. Tie up fronds. 3. Bubble wrap. 4. Strap on plastic sheeting.

Dec 8, 2018Dec 2018

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While in Cyprus this week I found that a lot of gardens had Bougainvillea in flower. It is a favourite, though it would not grow here in the UK. But it is so colourful and it lasts so long, perhaps because most of the colour comes from the coloured ...

Dec 7, 2018Dec 2018

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Like most gardeners I only take holidays in the winter. So that usually means going south for warmth, this year to the island of Cyprus. Where among the rocks I found the beautiful little Narcissus serotinus, the autumn flowering “Late ...

Philosophy & Meaning

Nov 26, 2018Nov 2018

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If its a cold day you may want to watch this one, it will certainly warm your blood up.

Silly, Random & Fun

Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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When you are young, and simple things seem enough.

Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of ...

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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This is a new idea, though many may have kind of guessed it was likely. Great art work and interesting sound track too.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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History of some wonderful animals.

Science, Health & History Tidbits

Nov 22, 2018Nov 2018

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One for future history perhaps.

Nov 20, 2018Nov 2018

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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Richard Dawkins, talking about relativism.

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