When Winter is upon us, she makes quite sure that she 'ups' her intake of goodly things like Vit D (in a liquid format) for there is precious little sunlight to be had and even on days that old Mister Sun is out, it's as cold as a witches tit, so she's not hanging about outside and certainly not exposing any skin to his feeble wintery rays.
The things that are the best to eat aren't even 'thinking' of growing yet, they're much too wise, so she does the next best things which is to take them in the form of a tincture. Urtica Dioica.
In fact, she slurps three tinctures twice a day, every day throughout these wintery days, Swedish Bitters which she takes twice a day, every day of the year, Elderberry and Stinging Nettle.
She takes Elderberry as from the beginning of November and Stinging Nettle as from the first of January.
Who wants to get this wretched Aussie or any other flu, she doesn't for sure and hopes that eating properly, wearing gloves all the time she is on a bus and a tube and keeping a scarf over her mouth and nose will help to keep germs at bay.
She makes a point of staying away from people who are sick, for she caught a disgusting virus from a sick child on Christmas Day 2016 which absolutely knocked her for six and was not surprised to hear later that the poor child had been hospitalised with it either.
There are much too many nice things to do in the Winter to waste time lolling about in bed feeling ill with some gruesome influenza! The tourists have mostly gone back to from whence they came, so the museums are less crowded and there are new exhibitions and there are talks and things to do and places to go.
But I saw what was in her shopping basket, it was three packets of Italian seeds, the ground may be frozen solid or soggy underfoot but you can't stop a gardener from planning, plotting and dreaming about what they're going to grow, can you?
Now, if only those nettles would grow.. yum, for we are both very partial to a few leaves of baby steamed nettles with a twist of garlic and chilli.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 9th, 2018.
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