Plenty of Nothing

Jersey Kale

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Lindenbaum

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Sea Heart

The sea heart, or sea bean, is the seed of the tropical liana vine, can float in water, and sometimes washes up in England. Source.

Jurassic Brora

Brora is home to the quarry that supplied stone for London Bridge. In 1907 the paleobotanist Marie Stopes made a study of the plant fossils preserved in the Brora sandstone, including this ginkgo plant. Source.

Morton visit Dudgeon Park in Brora, Sutherland for their Scottish Cup third round replay against Brora Rangers. The winner of today's match will go on to meet St Johnstone in Round Four.

[Brora 1 - 3 Morton. Morton goals by Lyon, McAlister and Cadden [twice]. Morton advance to meet St Johnstone in Round Four.]

Brora Rangers in the Scottish Cup:

1979-80    R2    Buckie Thistle 0 - 0 Brora Rangers

                          Brora Rangers 1 - 2 Buckie Thistle

2008-09    R1    Newton Stewart 1 - 1 Brora Rangers

                          Brora Rangers 2 - 1 Newton Stewart

                  R2    Brora Rangers 1 - 3 Forfar

2009-10     R1    Brora Rangers 0 - 2 Irvine Meadow

2010-11     R1    Edinburgh University 2 - 2 Brora Rangers

                           Brora Rangers 2 - 1 Edinburgh University

                  R2    Elgin 5 - 3 Brora Rangers

2011-12     R1    Edinburgh City 3 - 0 Brora Rangers

2012-13     R1    Formartine 3 - 2 Brora Rangers

2013-14     R1    Brora Rangers 1 - 0 Vale of Leithen

                  R2    Brora Rangers 1 - 1 Cove Rangers

                           Cove Rangers 0 - 3 Brora Rangers

                  R3    Clyde 2 - 1 Brora Rangers

2014-15     R2    Brora Rangers 5 - 0 Banks O'Dee

                  R3    Edinburgh City 2 - 3 Brora Rangers

                  R4    Queen of the South 4 - 1 Brora Rangers

2015-16     R2    Brora Rangers 1 - 2 Arbroath

2016-17     R1    Fort William 1 - 4 Brora Rangers

                  R2    Brora Rangers 0 - 2 Clyde

2017-18     R1    Brora Rangers 5 - 0 Girvan

                  R2    Civil Service Strollers 0 - 5 Brora Rangers

                  R3    Stranraer 0 - 1 Brora Rangers

                  R4    East Fife 0 - 1 Brora Rangers

                  R5    Kilmarnock 4 - 0 Brora Rangers

2018-19     R1    Brora Rangers 4 - 3 Turriff United

                  R2    Brora Rangers 6 - 0 Coldstream

                  R3    Cowdenbeath 1 - 0 Brora Rangers

2019-20     R2    Clachnacuddin 0 - 7 Brora Rangers

                  R3    Morton 1 - 1 Brora Rangers

Championship: Ayr United [0 - 1] Dunfermline

Wikipedia has pages about nine Morton seasons in the 1870s and 1880s. For the most part they only list Scottish Cup fixtures, but the 1885-86 article lists two friendlies that I had never heard of before:

1886/3/6        Morton 2 - 2 Hibs

1886/4/24      Morton 4 - 1 London Caledonians

London Caledonians (1886-1939) were founding members of the Isthmian League.

Elsewhere. While we're not following 1. FC Saarbrücken this season they're busy leading Regionalliga Südwest.

Sumo Wrestlers and Sunflowers

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Maplelawn 2004

Long-Stemmed

Shelterbelt

In response to the 1930s Dust Bowl the US federal government authorized the reforestation of part of the Great Plains, encouraging farmers to plant windbreaks along the edges of their properties. The result was the Great Plains Shelterbelt. Source.

Oasis

Heart of Chestnut

May 30 [1790]. John Carpenter brings home from the Plashet at Rotherfield some old chest-nut trees which are very long. In several places the wood-peckers had begun to bore them. The timber & bark of these trees are so very like oak, as might easily deceive an indifferent observer, but the wood is very shakey, & towards the heart cup-shakey, so that the inward parts are of no use. They were bought for the purpose of cooperage, but must make but ordinary barrels, buckets, &c. Chestnut sells for half the price of oak; but has some times been sent into the King's docks, & passed off instead of oak.

Gilbert White, Journals, pages 358-59.

cup-shakey = tending to split along the rings