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Lesson 1) The cormorant is standing in the sun drying out his wings for an extended period of time because their wings have less preen oil than other birds and not because, as you thought, they are one of…
Lessons Learned During Outdoor Photography Shots
Why I Stopped Caring About Banned Books Week — Discover
“Maybe banned books are such a problem because when your tokens of diversity are so limited, losing even one is a huge blow. So the solution isn’t saying ‘unban this book!’ The solution is to make more books like it.” via Why I Stopped Caring About Banned Books Week — Discover
A Rainy Day — CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert’s Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. unknown via A Rainy Day — CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert’s Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment
The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope (Cider in literature)
“Well,” said Uncle Daniel next day, “we are going to have a very poor crop of apples this year, so I think we had better have some cider made from the early fruit. Harry and Bert, you can help John if you like, and take a load of apples to the cider mill to-day to…
We plough the fields, and scatter (A hymn for Autumn)
As we enter the wonderful season of autumn,this beautiful hymn reminds us of the cycle of life and the fact that you have to sow in order to reap We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land, but it is fed and watered by God’s almighty hand; he sends the…
All things Bright and Beautiful one of the hymns that reminds me of Harvest Time
Refrain: All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings, he made their glowing colors, he made their tiny wings. Refrain The purple-headed mountain, the river running by, the sunset, and the morning…
Origins of the word “Cider”
cider (n.) late 13c., from Old French cidre, cire “pear or apple cider” (12c., Modern French cidre), variant of cisdre, from Late Latin sicera, Vulgate rendition of Hebrew shekhar, a word used for any strong drink (translated in Old English as beor, taken untranslated in Septuagint Greek as sikera), related to Arabicsakar “strong drink,” sakira…
The Mont-Bazillac by Arthur Quiller Couch (cider in literature)
I have a sincere respect and liking for the Vicar of Gantick–“th’ old Parson Kendall,” as we call him–but have somewhat avoided his hospitality since Mrs. Kendall took up with the teetotal craze. I say nothing against the lady’s renouncing, an she choose, the light dinner claret, the cider, the port (pale with long maturing…
Ode to Autumn by John Keats (Cider mention)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With…
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Cider Mention)
Every drop of moisture not in the men’s bottles and flagons in the form of cider was raining as perspiration from their foreheads and cheeks. Drought was everywhere else.
Cider Season
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It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it. Diana Gabaldon (Outlander)
Pre Brexit:EU was to review tax change which could have put smaller UK cider makers out of business
Pre Brexit, the EU was to review tax change which could put smaller UK cider makers out of business.Post Brexit we must make sure that they no longer have the influence to do further damage to our cider business.The increase in duty alone in 1984 by 47% cost at least 500 jobs in the UK…
Cider Press 