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The beach Such a gift. along the coast but not always there for it can be taken away or for it can just appear The Beach is majestic here in Scotland MIles of sand bestowed for pleasure Often with only the Seagulls and an Eagle to share with The beach...
St. Mary Major Basilica First raised at the order of Pope Liberius in the mid-fourth century, the Liberian basilica was rebuilt by Pope Sixtus III shortly after the Council of Ephesus affirmed Mary’s title as Mother of God in 431. Rededicated at that...
Facebook made people feel anxious, depressed and feel like a failure. young people are now particularly ditching Facebook and this results in happiness returning. Life has changed for the better since deleting social media.(Facebook) ‘A lot of young people...
This happens in New York. A man is taking a walk with his dog. The dog sees a fawn. It is drowning in the sea. The dog jumps into the water. It pulls the fawn to shore. The dog tries to bring the fawn back to life. It touches it with its nose and mouth....
Jokes to make you laugh why was the cucumber mad? Because it was in a pickle. What new crop did the farmer plant? Beets me What are a scarecrow's fruit? Strwa-berries What kind of things does a farmer talk about when he is milking cows? Udder nonsense...
Spangles (sweets) Fizzy Orangeade Spangles wrapper from 1974, price 2½ pence Spangles was a brand of boiled sweets manufactured by Mars Ltd in the United Kingdom from 1950 to the early 1980s. They were sold in a paper tube with individual sweets originally...
Victory V A packet and a roll of lozenges Victory V is a British brand of liquorice-flavoured lozenges. [1] Originally manufactured in Nelson, Lancashire, they were devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in the mid-19th century and were initially...
Edward I Edward I was a strong King. Edward I conquered Wales. The Welsh had never obeyed the Normans. Edward I built the fine Harlech castle in Wales. Edward I tried to conquer Scotland. Edward I did conquer Scotland but he did try very hard/ Edward...
Nature in a summer's evening. Beyond the hedgehog the pink betony raises its tall aquare stems on which, here and there, cuckoo-spit insects have made their coverings of foam. These creatures suck the sap of plants, some of which they spit out and so...
Curfew in the middle ages In the middle ages towns, the mayor and the alderman were supposed to keep order, and they paid the common sergeant and the watchman to do the work for them. After curfew (which means 'cover fire' and was a law made by the Normans...
Antonio Lucci Antonio studied with and was a friend of Saint Francesco Antonio Fasani, who after Antonio Lucci’s death, testified at the diocesan hearings regarding the holiness of Lucci. Born in Agnone in southern Italy, a city famous for manufacturing...
Starlings in the Summer A couple of starlings with their maturing brood are perched on the roof ridge. The young birds,fully-fledged, keep their brown plumage until the autumn, when they gradually become spotted like their parents. Starlings are sociable...
Saint Joachim and Anne In the Scriptures, Matthew and Luke furnish a legal family history of Jesus, tracing ancestry to show that Jesus is the culmination of great promises. Not only is his mother’s family neglected, we also know nothing factual about...
St. James the Apostle This James is the brother of John the Evangelist. The two were called by Jesus as they worked with their father in a fishing boat on the Sea of Galilee. Jesus had already called another pair of brothers from a similar occupation:...
Several plants are growing on substantial of stome slabs. The house-leek, sometimes called sempervivum, can live in very dry conditions; it has thick, fleshy leaves that can store water, and its pretty pink flower blossoms in this July. The yellow stonecrop...
The clouded-yellow butterfly that is flying near the bramble will have to shelter if it is not to be beaten down by heavy rain - and possibly drowned. Clouded-yellows do not breed in England, but some years migrate from the Continent when wind and weather...
St. Lawrence of Brindisi At first glance, perhaps the most remarkable quality of Lawrence of Brindisi is his outstanding gift of languages. In addition to a thorough knowledge of his native Italian, he had complete reading and speaking ability in Latin,...
Poor Jack Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) GO, patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see, ’Bout danger, and fear, and the like; A tight-water boat and good sea-room give me, And it a’n’t to a little I ’ll strike. Though the tempest topgallant-masts smack smooth...
The Thrush The thrush is cracking a snail on an 'anvil' stone. The hard shell is broken by thwacking it again and again, and then the soft succulent flesh is gobbled up. Each thrush is likely to have its own particular stone, or stones, for snail-cracking;...
Every single living cell on our planet has a reason for being here. Every single animal has it's predator. Eliminate/reduce the predator and the victim of the predator will thrive. With so many pesticides and insecticides being used in large quantities...
NGO transparency Non-governmental organizations are corrupt They are not transparent They provide a golden goose for those running NGO's They hide, from being held to transparency and accountability standards They are selfish and destroy local iniative...
St Mary MacKillop If Saint Mary MacKillop were alive today, she would be a household name. It’s not that she sought the limelight. On the contrary, she simply wanted to serve the poor wherever she found them in her native Australia. But along the way,...
We do have a lot of deers in Scotland. I have planted new trees and only to have them destroyed by roaming deer looking for a tasty snack. Deer are attracted to a wide assortment of plants and trees and they will strip them bare. There are many products...
St. Francis Solano Francis came from a leading family in Andalusia, Spain. Perhaps it was his popularity as a student that enabled Francis in his teens to stop two duelists. He entered the Friars Minor in 1570, and after ordination enthusiastically sacrificed...
The wild, briar rose and elder are lovely flowers of midsummer. The wild rose, the emblem of England, has been loved by all generations of English men and women. The rose is in full blossom and so, too, are the heavy branches of elder. The swallows are...
