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It is legal tender, but try it in an southern English supermarket, or reenactor's fayre....or pub local thereof. It's easier to run around making sure we have English notes :sigh:

Pick the plantain leaf and chew it to mush. Slowly let the juice/saliva slip down your throat. It reduces inflammation. Self heal flowers are picked (they work when dried too) and best simmered gently with water and a little honey or sugar. A handful of fresh in a mugfull of water. Couple of...

We've to change our notes to come south. Scottish bank notes are often refused, or at least scrutinised beyond courtesy and reason. The folks from Northern Ireland say the same thing.

The plant has a really distinctive smell, and I'm pretty sure that might discourage some, but the flowers end up almost like magnets for others. Broch's right about the hover flies, I counted eight different types one day, but the blue and black flies seem to like them too. Funny enough though...

I'd a friend who was so upset at the number of bees...they're 'big' and they make a big flash and you can smell them being zapped apparently....that she threw the thing in the bin. Maybe it's how you have it positioned ? Her's was on the patio table.

Tansy......It's growing at the corner of my house......the flies love it when the sun shines on the flower heads.......I'll take a photo when it blooms, it's not there yet.

Screens. I live under trees, we get huge moths, and I am not keen on moths, and we get every blasted kind of fly too. If you have a campfire you can smoke stuff like mugwort and that keeps them off, or if you have electricity and don't mind wholesale murder of every insect....mind that includes...

Historically I know that Yew was a vitally important timber for longbows....and that it is toxic for animals to browse. Growing in churchyards it wasn't browsed, and it was left in peace after coppicing for bow lengths. It is incredibly long lived, the one in Fortingal is at least as old as the...

It doesn't even get a mention in Essential Substances. It's native in Europe, and it's not in Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals, either (that's a very reputable herbal; no mince, iimmc ? ) or the Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook. Culpepper, writing in the earlr 1500's said that it was a...

I don't see why not. We talked about not sleeping under a Yew tree because folks have truly weird dreams, and we know that some of the hearth herbs are used as tobaccos and those can have gentle mind effects. Mugwort comes to mind. Honestly, I'd never heard that weld was used as a mild narcotic...

Oi! I moddle, I don't buttle :D

It will. It lasts for years.....I've used stuff an elderly friend gathered and dried, and Joyce was sure it was fifteen years old. It worked fine.

Yes, they do. Alum gives bright clear colours, copper gives green tones to the colour, and iron saddens a colour, but really fixes it. There are also plant derived 'fixatives' which are really mostly adjustants. Rhubarb roots, or leaves, boiled up and the resultant liquid works well as to stop...

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Weld is one of the simplest dyes. The whole plant gives good colour, but commercially usually folks only get the stems....well the seller is keeping the best bits for themselves, iimmc ? So, I leave it to ripen just enough that some of the seeds are falling...give it a chance to spread :) and...

This is another month full of really good photos :D Hard choice. Lovely to see; thanks to everyone who takes part :D

It's weld. Reseda luteola. It's one of the trio of native natural dyes that make pretty much any colour. Blue from Woad Red from Madder Yellow from Weld. They're all strong enough to cross dye properly so you get the entire range of colours; with care :) Weld seeds prolifically but likes...

I'm pretty sure you're right and that's an eel ladder :cool: They need something to work with against the current, so bristles or pegs....and your photo looks like pegs. They just wriggle their way around and upwards :) Lovely photos :D

Y'know? Humanity is the Cooking Ape for a damned good reason :rolleyes:

Do you have somewhere at home where they could ramble around ? Happy to bag and post some. Usually my issue is keeping the wood pigeons off them :rolleyes: