Families with limited travel circuits in the southern counties may have considered it irrelevant, while Travellers living in border counties probably traversed it with ease. How the political boundary hindered nomadic life depended to a large extent on the Stormont and Dublin administrations and on ...
When I was growing up, the television was often switched on in the background in the lounge. My three little brothers played with huge piles of Lego bricks, trying to build the the world’s largest tower. They spent hours constructing the buildings, then crash, down they came. Undeterred,...
We sat stiffly in the dining room around a large mahogany table, exchanging awkward remarks, while her mother served Campbell’s tomato soup and Kraft cheese sandwiches, not quite enough for the four of us. My family has lots of problems, I thought, but coming up with food and conversation...
Orchids sharethis structure with lilies and irises(百合花和鸢尾花).For reproduction, orchid flowers have male and female parts joined into onestructure. The structure i called the column. The column is the most important quality that identifies the orchid family.B4_Some are “air plants" that ...
Wild irises bloomed at the lawn’s edge. A large flowerpot filled with petunias sat on the cement steps leading to the front door. Fewer trees stood in the backyard, and a plastic infant swing swayed in the breeze on an elm bordering the road. Because Miguel drove slowly, the boys ...
substitute a boxed mix and frosting to make things easier. These owls become lifelike in the decorating process, with opened sandwich cookies creating the large eyes and brown candy-coated milk chocolate pieces as irises. Drop a vertical candy piece in the middle for a beak, and a dessert th...
Last month, in the post immediately preceding this one, I went to town with a homage to and much nostalgia aboutKamisaka Sekka(1866-1942), also a Rimpa Master, but who brought the school into and modernized it for and with the 20th Century. Sekka painted irises, too, in the 20th Centur...
Wild irises bloomed at the lawn’s edge. A large flowerpot filled with petunias sat on the cement steps leading to the front door. Fewer trees stood in the backyard, and a plastic infant swing swayed in the breeze on an elm bordering the road. Because Miguel drove slowly, the boys ...
with either blonde or brunette hair (twice as many blondes were made as the brunettes) that was in a ponytail with curly bangs. Barbie had bright red lips and nails, heavy eyeliner, arched eyebrows, white irises in her eyes (not blue), black and white striped one piece bathing suit, ...
His eyes betray his age. The irises have lost their luster and appear a little moth eaten. Who can guess what these eyes have seen in his 14 years. Nancy says the only remarkable thing about his health is some weight loss and a pronounced increase in appetite. Gently tracing my two fing...