Healing time

This not entirely stunning plant is selfheal. A lovely name - it's also sometimes called "heal-all", which has the same confidently soothing tone. Robin Harford offers a primer.

I plucked the top off one plant and ate it. Bitter. Fresh. Not unpleasant. I thought that dried it would make a tea as good as dandelion.

And there was so much of it that I thought the forager's code would allow me to harvest enough for a tea caddy's worth.

I used to put it in mead. And I recall someone asking me about it... maybe Annette in Canada... does it grow there? Yes, apparently so.

There are various long or, rather, involved emails that I need to write - I am not sure where this thought came from... ah yes... this is the route... Annette to wands to Styn to emails to Elisabeth and back to emails.

There is a message in this: I had better go and write the darn emails.