Word game: Last letters link

[pommystuart]

Jil, Have you been to

Lyme

Regis. Lovely spot for a holiday.

[jil]

(Spookily, I've just had an email from the walking holiday company I use a lot that included a special offer for the Northumberland coast and one of the walks visits Dunstanburgh. I've booked it, obviously!)

[leelaht]

Does the walking trip include

Meldon?

Meldon is a village in Northumberland, England. It lies to the west of Morpeth. The population of Meldon as taken at the 2001 Census was 162, increasing to 242 at the 2011 Census.

[pommystuart]

(I don't know where this is leading, but here goes.)

Yes, Meldon is on our way. So is Onn, High

We also pass through

Onneley

in Staffordshire.

[jil]

Any chance it's leading to

Eyam

in Derbyshire?

(I have been to Lyme Regis. As a big Jane Austen fan I had to go and walk along the Cobb. The walks on my trip to Northumberland are further north than Meldon. It's only a weekend, one day is along the coast as previously mentioned and the other in the Cheviot Hills.)

[leelaht]

Or how 'bout

Ambergate

which used to be called Toadmoor. No castles there, but it is within the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage site, and is notable for its railway heritage and telephone exchange.

[pommystuart]

You used to be able to get a good strong cup of

tea

at a railway stop.

[Randi]

Tea was around long before railway stops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea

An

early

credible record of tea drinking dates to the third century AD, in a medical text written by Chinese physician Hua Tuo. It was popularised as a recreational drink during the Chinese Tang dynasty, and tea drinking subsequently spread to other

East

Asian countries. Portuguese priests and merchants introduced it to Europe during the 16th century. During the 17th century, drinking tea became fashionable among the English, who started to plant tea on a large scale in British India.

Use either word

[pommystuart]

I don't drink tea because I have

lyssophobia

which is a fear of drinking liquids, despite thirst due to spasm of the throat muscles. (Just joking)

I believe back in the 1774s American tea tasted like salty water.

[Randi]

If anyone here does suffer from lyssophobia, I suggest an

iatrical

consultation

[pommystuart]

Nice find.

[jil]

They might diagnose a problem within the

alimentary

canal

[leelaht]

If the doctor was

Ryukyuan

I wonder if they'd prescribe a Japanese Kampo medicine for that.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8181179/

[pommystuart]

Well, that's

another

thing worth a try.

[Randi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_medicine

The earliest known Greek herbals came from Theophrastus of

Eresos

who, in the 4th century BCE, wrote in Greek Historia Plantarum, from Diocles of Carystus who wrote during the 3rd century BCE, and from Krateuas who wrote in the 1st century BCE. Only a few fragments of these works have survived intact, but from what remains, scholars noted overlap with the Egyptian herbals.

[leelaht]

I wonder if herb collectors tend to be

osmatic.

[pommystuart]

I bet the herb collectors come upon some

icky

smells in their travels.

[jil]

But if searching near

Kyle

of Lochalsh, they might find some Bog Myrtle which has a pleasant scent.

[leelaht]

A bog myrtle

leaf

can be used to make a tea or a seasoning.

[pommystuart]

Leelaht, are you an

aficionado

on teas?