Maidenhair Spleenwort

What a fabulous name and growing exuberantly in the stone walls round about. It loves a bit of moist limestone mortar apparently - just as well because guess what, yes another grey and soggy day. It's a teeny fern and is useful for all sorts of things - powdered is good for rickets, the ointment for bruises, tea for a sore throat, and a poultice for bee stings. This is what Culpeper has to say about it in his Herbal:
Saturn owns it. It is generally used against infirmities of the spleen. It helps the stranguary and wasteth the stone in the bladder, and against the yellow jaundice and the hiccoughs but the juice of it in women hinders conception.
It's also effective against gonorrhea, melancholy diseases and rickets in children.
This morning I had a very long zoom with The Artist and things will be kicking off in May  - more workshops (story gathering and creative writing), the results of which will be handed to a singer/song writer to do her magic.  Film makers, choreographers, musicians etc are being assembled with filming scheduled for mid July. Gulp. 
And we finished Ripley - oh, Venice! What an incredible place. It all looked stunning, and a good ending. I suspect there might be season 2.