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Mmm, infused camomile & honey, could anything be more soothing? I read the sales patter:

Experience gentle, caramel harmony. Summer-picked camomile flowers. Slow, golden hour honey notes. Rich, floral, sweet. This is your moment of peace.

Okay.

The reader was then offered a ‘Herbalist Tip’:

Someone has emailed me the aims and objectives of a large, evangelistic event which I share, below. This is what the organisers hope will to happen to those who 'respond':

Clarity about your calling that will shift your entire future

Freedom from struggles that have followed you for years

The sky is overcast, the pavements are wet, and an icy wind is blowing across Piccadilly Gardens. I’m annoyed when I remember how many times I’ve said to myself and to others, in talking about Open Airs: “It’s always going to be colder and wetter than you think it will be!” And here we are, Stephen and myself, lulled into a false sense of security by the recent spell of warm weather, inadequately clothed and shivering already.

Cross Kirk in Peebles, Scotland, is a rather battered and ruinous old place, though one pleasant enough to mosey round. Originally built to house relics, it was a friary in the in 1470s. By the mid-seventeenth century, when the work of Reformation was at its most complete in the British Isles, further alterations were made. An inscription, now badly worn, was added: