[Stones] bronze age ale

[Ric]

love it

especially in the context of stones and mythology!

R

--- Merryn Dineley <merryn at dineley.com> wrote:

> The meadowsweet is pretty good just now. Indeed it
> does like damp soil 
> conditions. We were smelling the meadowsweet around
> Brodgar today; there 
> is about half an acre or more of it. As I wandered
> the car park picking 
> up litter (mostly cigarette butts)in my capacity as
> a volunteer ranger.
> merryn
> 
> Ric wrote:
> > ah, meadowsweet - if you only knew what that meant
> to
> > me?
> > 
> > one of flowers from which the wizards Gwydion and
> Math
> > conjured Blodeuwedd - 'flowerlike' - the god
> Lleu's
> > beautiful consort
> > 
> > i found myself in a sunny glade of meadowsweet
> several
> > years ago, in a part of Wild North Wales, with a
> > hidden brook running beneath my feet, which i
> could
> > hear but not see ...
> > 
> > also noticed meadowsweet growing around the base
> of
> > Silbury, it seems to like damp soil conditions?
> > 
> > ;)