MARJOLAINE

There was a great organic exhibition this week-end, full of free-range, eco-friendly, hemp jumper-wearing and alfalfa-sprouting sort of people just like me. I found a great book on my favourite herb, borage, went to a talk on the dangers of all the nasty synthetic chemicals which are overloading our poor bodies (quick pass me the red clover tea) and bought some funny yellow cucumber seeds. But our favourite stand was, of course, the one selling all the different dried herbs in huge sacks. I’ll let you into a little secret though: cornflower tea might look very pretty and be very useful medicinally but it isn’t that tasty!