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Natural history
Dec 30, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Problems and solutions, some doubts, as always its complicated but interesting.
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Gardeners
Dec 28, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
A quick, sadly very quick overview of one of the great garden cultures. You may not want one but you have to admire.
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Natural history
Dec 28, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Coral reefs have a life history, which produces many features you may recognize. The way reefs grow and develop was originally one of C. Darwin's lesser known discoveries.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Dec 26, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
The greatest story ever told, does not I think come from the bible. None of it is anything like as good as that story of evolution. Here's a bit more of it. The apocryphal bit perhaps.
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Gardeners
Dec 25, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Viburnum X bodnantense is perhaps the best winter flower there is, nearly all though the winter it make these small but very highly scented flowers. If brought in to the house, even one small branch will fill the room with a hyacinth perfume.
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Natural history
Dec 25, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
A controversial practice which certainly yields a lot of data, but some people question its on going value. A good article by the BBC
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Dec 24, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This came up on a post in another group, but I thought it too good to waste. And it is kind of seasonal. Enjoy.
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Gardeners
Dec 24, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
A vase a bowl and some Holly from the garden, it seem enough to celebrate the winter solstice, at least for a lone male. (It cost nothing and will seem even better after a couple of drinks. ) Happy solstice to you all.
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Natural history
Dec 24, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
In my youth Hedgehogs used to be very common, but sadly they have been in decline, here in the UK, so long that they are now becoming a rare sight. Habitat loss, poisoning and all the usual thing, combine with the fact that they are naturally ...
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Natural history
Dec 22, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I like the country when it is bare, but it is a wonder that the wildlife survives at all, without any growing food.
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Photography
Dec 22, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I am just loving the country now that it is all bleak and bare.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Dec 20, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
The size of the task, and will we complete it.
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Natural history
Dec 20, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Blackbirds are perhaps the most familiar of all the birds which live close to humans in the UK. Just outside the house window there is a small patch of lawn, little used, because it only really exists, as far as humans are concerned, to serve as a ...
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Dec 19, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
If you have 20 mins to amuse yourself with a little history, which is often misunderstood, enjoy.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Dec 17, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
A possible return of a native, but I wonder if a cross/hybrid is the same thing.
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Dec 17, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I like this, don't no why. But I never realized that it was from The Lord Of The Rings till I heard this version today. And I like this version especially.
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Natural history
Dec 16, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This is one of our smallest birds here in the UK, yet it is a master builder of nests. Especially cozy.
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Natural history
Dec 16, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This is a native Peacock butterfly (you can see why) photographed in the garden last summer, on my white Buddleja. Buddleja is by far the best butterfly attractor we have here in the UK, but it is considered an invasive foreign species, and there is ...
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Gardeners
Dec 16, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I saw this in the next village, some very neat stylish hedge cutting, obviously a work of passion, And not quite as twee as some topiary you see.
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Natural history
Dec 15, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Some years ago having an idle moment and a tractor with driver to hand, I had a small pond dug, no sooner was this done this than we were adopted by a pair of moorhens, who came and started to nest in less than a couple of months and they or the ...
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Quotes
Dec 14, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell. OK, so it gave my brain cells a good workout too, but it does make sense when you think about it.
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Quotes
Dec 14, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Equality feels like oppression when you are used to privilege. JonnaBono... Quoting one of our own members again.
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Gardeners
Dec 12, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I also posted this one in Natural History, but it works here too. With the hard winter coming on, this is something to think about, and most of it works all round the Atlantic.
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Natural history
Dec 12, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Timely advice with the hard winter coming on perhaps, and a lot of it should work all round the Atlantic shores.
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Quotes
Dec 11, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life. Donald C. Peattie
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Natural history
Dec 11, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
The water vole was once a common sight here in the UK, you could hardly ever take a walk by a stream without seeing one of these endearing creatures. Yet in just half my lifetime, they are now rare and unseen in most places.
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Natural history
Dec 9, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
The wild Chicory, Chichorium, grows in many of the hedgerows in this part of the UK, where it favours free draining soils on chalk, yet ten miles away it is hardly known. It is a really beautiful pale sky blue flower, which almost seems to reflect ...
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Quotes
Dec 7, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
No matter how widely you have traveled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it. Donald C. Peattie
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Natural history
Dec 6, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Some very humble plants, with more life than you would think. And I like this one just for the setting.
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Quotes
Dec 6, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
It is my contention that specialization should be left to those who are not mentally gifted at generalization. Donald Culross Peatie
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General & Hellos
Dec 6, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Almost the entire drive of human history has been, to find better ways of fooling your fellow humans, or better ways of killing them if they refused to be fooled. The best antidote is certainly true education, and best thing about nature is that it...
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Natural history
Dec 6, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This is something for the US. I wish we had these beautiful birds here in the UK.
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Natural history
Dec 5, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This was my first encounter with the large, impressive and much hallowed White Stork in Portugal. The pair were happily lingering and engaging in quiet displays of affection, no more than perhaps five meters from the ground, just off a busy and noisy...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Dec 4, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This may not be the last eating babies joke, but it may not be a joke any longer just delicious.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Dec 4, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Heres a little mystery to excite the brain cells. A bit of a slow burn video but worth staying to the end. Enjoy.
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Natural history
Dec 4, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Maybe things don't change that much. The other morning in the lane, as the light began to grow a little, I paused to wipe some irritating cobwebs from my face. The spiders obviously regard the lane as their own after dark. Looking up a bat was ...
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General & Hellos
Dec 3, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
So I am attempting to start a new group, ( it was bound to happen one day ). It is intended mainly for pleasure and nature lovers, any thing and everything to do with the beautiful world we live on, and especially the things we share it with. Please ...
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Natural history
Dec 3, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
There may be a few Corvids here since they are a personal favorite. Enjoy.
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Natural history
Dec 3, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Cork Oak, Quercus suber, grows in semi open habitats under the hot dry Mediterranean sun, its bark is therefore especially thick and waterproof for protection. The thick bark is harvested in spring from the trees when once they are twenty five years ...
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Gardeners
Dec 3, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
The Mahonia bealei ( It may be Mahonia x media, help with that would be appreciated.) is coming into flower now in the garden, it is I think one of the best winter flowers, with the almost perfect rosettes of flower spikes on top of the foliage ...
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Gardeners
Dec 1, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Each year a Christmas tree goes to the village, for display in the square. I excuse myself giving it, on the grounds that, it clears space in the garden, the logs can be burned and it is a Yule Tree celebrating the winter solstice not a xmas tree, ...
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Nov 26, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Its cold and damp here today in the UK, was yesterday, will be tomorrow. Oh, for and hour in a scented garden under a warm sun. Especially with appropriate music. ( Don't know about snow? )
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Quotes
Nov 21, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
“To a philosopher all news is gossip.” Henry David Thoreau
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Religious Naturalism
Nov 21, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
There are no things could, so much enduring give, As fragile things, that swiftly die; and live. Those ageless hosts, who lived and died. That with nature, might, in us provide. The fragments of the ancient life and woe, Becoming every feeling, that...
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Gardeners
Nov 20, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Some may think this a little sentimental but I like it.
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Religious Naturalism
Nov 20, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Hello. So the only thing that I think I know about Religious Naturalism, comes from reading a book called The Sacred Depths Of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough, many years ago, is this the same thing ?
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Nov 19, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This is so well known it is almost corny, but have you ever heard it with a male voice. I like it.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Nov 19, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
With just a little hand crafting, you too could make something smart to wear when you go out. ( Irony. ) How beautiful and long forgotten things may have been made.
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
OK so its a dismal cold wet month but some days nice things happen. Chin up.
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Just posted a Tom And Jerry, but here is another unusual rendering, which is fun in a quite different way. PS,. Does anyone remember the Guinness advert ?
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UK Atheists & Agnostics
Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
When the weather is cold and grey. Find ye shelter where ye may. ( Hope you are all keeping your heads above water. )
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
The very early dawn of perhaps one of the world great thought systems, and a beautiful couple of objects.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Love science bits which still leave some question unanswered. Enjoy.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I think this is a lovely overview, much more interesting than it sounds.
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General & Hellos
Nov 12, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Every so often the old question crops up. Why does a site for agnostic/atheists spend so much time on the main forum talking about religion. Well perhaps for a lot of people who come here, while this is one of the upper rungs on the ladder on their...
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General & Hellos
Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
So if you or I come to something which we find dull and uninteresting, but other people seem to find fascinating. How can you or I know if it is the thing which is truly dull and uninteresting or if it is us ?
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Not just a wonderful mellow rhapsody, but comes with beautiful paintings too.
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Silly, Random & Fun
Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
OK so we all get bored to death with the meaning of 'spiritual' question. But a lot of people here list themselves as 'Free-thinker'. What the does free-thinker mean ?
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Gardeners
Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
The autumn is cold and late now, but down at the bottom of the garden something still grows and thrives.
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Nov 9, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Heres one to listen to tomorrow, though you can listen today as well. ( Remembering they gave their todays for our tomorrows. )
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Gardeners
Nov 9, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
We have had two good frosts now, but a couple of summer flowers are still hanging on. The Lamium or dead nettles, which are wonderful value as ground cover and just seem always to flower, plus one last Lupin. But the winter flowers are starting with ...
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Dandelion Hunters
Nov 9, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I hurt my back yesterday sweeping up in the yard, so I am now reduced to sitting catching up with the accounts today. But at least the winter sun is streaming in through the windows, sometimes I think that for all the clever philosophy in the world, ...
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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed
Nov 9, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I hurt my back sweeping the yard yesterday, so I a forced to spend today sitting and catching up with the accounts. But at least the winter sun is streaming in through the window.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Nov 7, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Both science and history. This is something everyone has heard of, but you rarely see it explained and it is pretty.
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Gardeners
Nov 4, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Everything in the garden and the field hedgerows seems to be turning red now. With Rose hips, Haws (hawthorn berries), Guelder rose, and Rowan everywhere. (For those having problems I had to reduce size and quality of photo to load, but it worked at ...
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Community Senate
Nov 3, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Still can't get it to load photos, even quite small ones now.
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General & Hellos
Nov 3, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
They are back. For a long time I have not had a visit from the JW banging on the door. I understood that they had stopped doing it in the UK on health and safety grounds. But yesterday, perfectly on the day after Halloween, like the monsters in a ...
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Gardeners
Nov 1, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Just took this in the garden, and could not resist quoting Thomas Moore. Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone;
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Nov 1, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
So are some phobias instinctive, what do you think before you watch this, and after. ( Cute alert too. )
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Nov 1, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This is the story of just one beautiful work of art, which throws a light on some ancient history. Also posted on the science/history page.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Nov 1, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Fernapple
A pleasant ten minutes with a beautiful work of art and a little history.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Oct 28, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I love the mysteries that are just on the edge of knowledge, especially when they are about old times.
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Gardeners
Oct 27, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
For a short while I own a vast golden treasure, and then the Ginkgo will drop its leaves.
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Photography
Oct 25, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
My local town on a rainy day. The church old and new, the town is famous for having the tallest church spire in the UK, quite beautiful and dating from the middle ages. The modern church seems to be a portable leaflet board. Some progress there then....
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General & Hellos
Oct 22, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I once thought that 'youtube' was the most interesting site on the web, until I discovered this one. But 'youtube' is still very good. So question, which is your second best website and why ? Or in other words do you know about something we may all ...
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Oct 17, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Something sad, but beautiful. Both the video and its content.
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Quotes
Oct 13, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
"The statesman has still to oust the politician from his lairs and weapons heaps. History has still to become a record of human dignity." H. G. Wells
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Quotes
Oct 13, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
H. G. Wells "How clever and cunning men may be, how subtle in contention, how brilliant in pretence, and how utterly wanting in wisdom or grace of spirit."
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Quotes
Oct 13, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
H. G. Wells on the Roman empire, anything sounding familiar ? "We find man after man asking "What has happened to Rome." Various answers are made - a decline in religion, a decline in the virtues of the Roman forefathers, Greek 'intellectual ...
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Quotes
Oct 11, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
"Never ask more of fortune than she is able to grant." Napoleon Bonaparte. Did not always follow his own advice, me thinks.
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Oct 8, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Another story from the deep past, but with some interest for todays world.
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General & Hellos
Oct 4, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Fernapple
The secret of happiness is often said to be many things, such as living in the moment, awareness, sharing. But for a second ask yourself, who gains, (cui bono ) from unhappiness. There is for example a huge industry called advertising, which some ...
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Science, Health & History Tidbits
Sep 30, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
You never know we may see something wonderful .
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Small Business Owners & The Self Employed
Sep 29, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Well that's it for this year, I shut up shop today for the winter. There is a great advantage in being a seasonal business, (plant nursery) because now that the season is over I can regroup, make repairs and changes. I sometimes think it must be very...
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This Day In History
Sep 28, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Just a thought, but I joined this group sometime ago, not especially to comment or make posts, but because I thought that the members here make interesting posts which I would like to read. Yet I do not seem to get notifications from this group. ...
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Philosophy & Meaning
Sep 28, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This came up on another post, but your opinions please ? Can a believer do philosophy ? Or do you either adopt philosophy or theology, nothing in between ? When historically the christian church especially, tried to make a compromise with certain ...
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Action Advocates for our Environment and Ecology
Sep 25, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Factors which may exacerbate the effects of global warming. It is a common argument used by those opposed to taking a responsible stance on global warming, to say that the climate has warmed before and that it did not cause mass extinctions then, so...
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Gardeners
Sep 22, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Perhaps sometimes a collection in a tiny space is good, like this one I saw the other day.
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Gardeners
Sep 22, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Perhaps sometimes you can do great things with just one plant. I visited this garden where they had a border of just Verbena bonarensis and it looked great, and just imagine the bees and butterflies it attracts when the day is warm.
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CLASSICAL, OPERA and CROSSOVER
Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
You don't often hear a zither, yet I love the sound of it.
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Gardeners
Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
How do you feel about light hearted things in the garden. Do you think that a sense of fun is good, or should gardens be taken seriously, is it possible to live with them longterm ? I visited today a garden which is unashamedly light hearted with a ...
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Gardeners
Sep 17, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
A party from the county gardeners trust was the last group visit of the year to the garden yesterday. The weather was good and they greatly enjoyed it, then sat in the sun with tea, coffee an cakes. From this point my only contact with other ...
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Photography
Sep 14, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I thought that being the people you are, you would like to see a photo of a ruined church. This is Rievaulx Abbey it was once great in power and wealth, owning perhaps great lands and many hundreds of cottages, but that brings envy, and it fell to ...
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Silly, Random & Fun
Sep 14, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
This occurred in a comment on another post, but I thought it worth quoting. All religion is a confidence trick. Yet why is it that if someone sells you a car which does not exist, you expect them to end up in prison. But if someone sells you a ...
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Quotes
Sep 12, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Someone quoted this to me today, though who said it first he did not know. "As an adult, try to be the person you most needed to meet when you were younger."
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General & Hellos
Sep 8, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Maybe this describes your views on things.
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General & Hellos
Sep 8, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
How do you answer the question often put by theists, that a view of a purely material world where we are products of blind evolution, is bound to be dismal and bleak without wonder or joy. For what it is worth, this works for me. Inheritance. ...
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General & Hellos
Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Now at last I can have the vicar to tea, because finally I have something really suitable to wear. And it came timely too, since this weekend marks the first full year spent on the site, I have learned a lot and met some great and interesting people ...
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Gardeners
Sep 4, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
Had to go out on business yesterday, and on the way back I called in at P's Garden. The gardens here are starting to fade now a little, but thanks to her good planning and planting P's still holds up well. It is very much an old English garden, ...
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General & Hellos
Sep 2, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Fernapple
I do not think many here really care what happens to their remains after they die. But suppose that you are cremated, and in your will you have one last chance to take your loved ones to somewhere wonderful they will enjoy, for the purpose of ...
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