Name edit

I changed the name of the old midwife in What's In a Name? from Mère Mégane ("Old Mother Mégane") to Albine, after discovering that people were interpreting this as an anachronistic attempt to call the character 'Meg-short-for-Megan' :-O

To be honest I don't know *where* I got the name from (unlikely to have been from modern Americanised pop culture as I don't read that sort of French!) Possibly subconsciously from Messrs Renault, although I would guess that I was probably simply looking for a rare name -- e.g. not drawing from the standard Phantom writers' limited female palette of Marie/Louise/Jeanne/Blanche/Angelique! -- that would alliterate...

A rose by any other name

Apparently the silver-grey plant which I had been told was mullein is *not* mullein, but rose campion! Not to be confused with red campion, or the white campion which I have just pulled up, as it had finished its uninspiring attempts at flowering and I certainly don't want the seed; a great disappointment after waiting two years.

I probably shan't keep the rose campion either, as it is really too large, although it is a spectacular bright pink and it does have a talent for clinging on in a grossly inadequate rootspace (grows naturally on rocky, scrubby hillsides, apparently). It is currently incredibly potbound, to the degree that I'm surprised there is any earth in there at all, and originally germinated and grew in a tiny seedtray compartment for many months until I finally took pity on it for having survived that long!

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