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Today I sat on nettles and stung my ass.

It was not a good day.

A few more plant fairies, this time stinging nettles and some unidentified thistle-like thing. Did you know eating stinging nettles can help treat eczema? (I fully expected it to be an old wives tale, but like many old wives tales it actually worked.) Among many large projects I’d like to do someday is a fairy herbal. Something in the manner of the Flower Fairies books by Cicely Mary Barker, which were primarily fantasy books but were also scrupulously botanically accurate (I’ve used them to identify flowers before), but focussing on plants with culinary or medicinal uses.

Some day!