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Hazel Hazel is a common tree of waysides and hedgerows. Historically it has also been coppiced in various parts of the UK and naturally forms an understorey. Hazel has a shrub-like habit and often has multiple stems, which unobstructed will grow pretty...
Anybody visited an overgrown ex-military base or closed surface mine? Perhaps you've been on the train and seen some old overgrown place, concrete crumbling, pathways overgrown? Nature will always come back, in some way, shape or form. As the greenery...
"Why do Christians worship on Sunday?" Answer: Most Christians traditionally worship on Sunday. Sunday worship is partly attributed to Sabbatarianism, the view that one day of the week should be reserved for religious observance and worship, as required...
In the present age, homeschooling is paid more attention by society and parents, more and more parents don't send their children to traditional public schools to study, so homeschooling is increasingly prevalent in our lives. Homeschooling is a method...
Crusader armies were made up of people from remarkably genetically diverse backgrounds, hailing not just from western Europe but also much further east, according to a new study that gives unprecedented insight into the fighters’ lives. The Crusades to...
Dignity Dignity is very important in life. Dignity means being strong int he face of problems. Its like courage and humble. Dignity looks like standing up for someone or not believing what one person says to one another. It also looks like showing love...
Sewage is created by residential, institutional, and commercial and industrial establishments and includes household waste liquid from toilets, baths, showers, kitchens, sinks and so forth that is disposed of via sewers. In many areas, sewage also includes...
London is the global centre for oligarchs, kleptocrats, financial opportunists, tax avoiders, 'dark money' specialists, who all utilise the City of London as their money laundering centre. Had it not been for this, we would not see the distinct division...
When did the ban on homeschool in Germany begin? Whose idea was it to eliminate homeschooling in a land where self-education had for centuries produced Bachs and Mozarts? ______ A new ruling from the European Human Rights Court has affirmed the German...
Land is finite! Ownership of land is always controversial. Private ownership in itself deprives others of it's value and accessibility, segregating the community which relies on it for survival in its broadest sense. Councils, you would have thought,...
What is meant by the term “free press”? Presumably a press that is free from government control, influence and interference. But what about a press that is owned by a tiny group of billionaire oligarchs? Such a press will always champion the interests...
Nobody wants to be considered to be below the poverty line. Unfortunately, for fourteen percent of the people in the USA, that is their reality. Fourteen percent of the people currently living in the United States’ basic needs for food, clothing, and...
It's the one person who just makes you smile no matter what. He smiles and jokes a lot. We all love him. Happiness is similar to a small virus that floats all about us. When we’re around positive, grateful, enthusiastic people, we sense their special...
English holidaymakers will be barred from going to Europe EU from January 1 under the Covid rules European commission say that the English will be banned on nonessential travel at end of Brexit transition English holidaymakers will be barred from Europe...
Found in an Attic A Chinese vase discovered in a battered shoebox stuffed in an attic in France it has been identified as an exquisite porcelain vessel made for the 18th century Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong. (£438,000/US$590,000). It was found by chance...
The cat The cat on the window-sill. This girl was peering through the window-pane. Malgosia is a friendly cat. Malgosia is a fat cat. She makes me laugh. She is a good cat. Not all cats are good but she is very good. I do not see her very often. But she...
"Greyfriars Bobby. Died 14th January 1872 aged 16 years old. Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all." This is a story which actually happened in nineteenth century Edinburgh. It portrays the touching relationship between one man and his dog....
St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe He entered the minor seminary of the Conventual Franciscans in Lvív–then Poland, now Ukraine– near his birthplace, and at 16 became a novice. Though Maximilian later achieved doctorates in philosophy and theology, he was deeply...
Postcards are wonderful. Whenever I go on Holiday I take a lot of postcards with me. So along with my luggage is a stack of a lot of postcards. Those post cards are not of the place that I am visiting. Instead those postcards are of where I have came...
St. Hippolytus Two men died for the faith after harsh treatment and exhaustion in the mines of Sardinia. One had been pope for five years, the other an antipope for 18. They died reconciled. Pontian. Pontian was a Roman who served as pope from 230 to...
St. Jane Frances de Chantal Jane Frances was wife, mother, nun, and founder of a religious community. Her mother died when she was 18 months old, and her father, head of parliament at Dijon, France, became the main influence on her education. Jane developed...
St. Clare of Assisi One of the more sugary movies made about Francis of Assisi pictures Clare as a golden-haired beauty floating through sun-drenched fields, a sort of one-woman counterpart to the new Franciscan Order. The beginning of her religious life...
The beavers in Argyll, Scotland More than 400 years after it was hunted to extinction in the UK, the Eurasian beaver is back in Scotland. The beaver is now regarded as a native species again, Returning beavers to Scotland’s lochs and rivers is the first...
St. Dominic If he hadn’t taken a trip with his bishop, Dominic would probably have remained within the structure of contemplative life; after the trip, he spent the rest of his life being a contemplative in active apostolic work. Born in old Castile,...
Thursday waiting for the postman waiting for a letter waiting for some news having such a pleasure in opening up a letter then sitting down in a big armchair with some biscuits and a warm cup of tea then read the news such delight in holding words the...
