Meet the Victorians

Had a day of learning about Plants and Potions. Excellent talk / demonstration about herbs and remedies and all sorts as part of Local History week. In this picture, she's taken a bowl with rolled oats in it and is about to make a muslin bag full of herbs/oils for use in the bath. We got one each! :-D

I'd agreed with a couple of friends that we'd go for the session 11-1. We loved the speaker so much and she was so enthusiastic about her subject that we decided to stay on for the 2-4 session too.

Friend L who has the brand new willow arbour and is having her garden re-designed, is now all sparked up about putting in various indigenous plants so she can have a herb garden too. (I have to say I was pretty enthused too and started to imagine life without the rhododendrons at the foot of the garden!! But I'll wait and see how L gets on!)

Turns out I have a lot of the things she was talking about already; Including thyme - several types of, californian poppies, hawthorn, foxglove (but she said Herbalists don't use that these days), rosemary and lavender. SO I'm well on the way. Just need to organise it and make use of it more!!

The Victorian woman in the back of the picture is part of a special display in the Auld Kirk museum in Kirkintilloch. The original pulpit from the church is sill there and has a preacher standing in it. The look of surprise / horror /realisation is quite funny when a new visitor spots him! Worth a visit.

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Tonight is William Wallace night. When I start knitting!! OH OH O.H. I fell heir to a Big Bag - I might show you tomorrow what's in it. I'm EXCITED!!!! but since I plan on having a fairly quiet / duvet type day as an antidote to my recent whirl of activity, it may very well be the only exciting thing to take a picture of! (Never end a sentence with a preposition!) thing exciting enough to merit a picture. (better?)