Fairy Led

Thanks so much for all you best wishes re leg, what a kind and lovely lot you are. All good so far and I have had a very lazy day putting my leg up and mainly reading things in the garden - most pleasant.

A gentle stroll around the estate and I thought this lesser stitchwort might do for Miranda's wildflower challenge - often overlooked but actually rather pretty. The name as Gaelige is a mouthful- Tursarraing chorraigh!  Apparently it's a fairy flower and must not be gathered or the offender will be fairy-led will be swamps and thickets at night! Plenty of those chez moi. Swamps and thickets, and the odd good person ie fairy that is. There's more: ... they are wont to drink it in wine with the powder of Acornes against the pains in the side, stitches and such like. Also the seed of a stitchwort being drunke causeth a woman to bring forth a man childe. From the Dictionary of PLant lore. 

And this is how you write it in Anglo-Saxon:  æðel-ferðing- wyrt, once used to heal Frodo's wound in Lord of the Rings!  So educational!