God's plants

contributed by Ethnomedica 21 Jan | 09:05

Between Mendham Hill … and All Saints Church were several dried up ditches and stanks (Fr.étang?) copiously cropped not only with common nettles but also with fewer docks. As children we were told that ‘God planted the docks to soothe us if we got stung by the nettles’

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From Suffolk (UK) in the 1990s

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