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🗓️ 9 September 2024
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0:00.0 | I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. In partnership with |
0:05.2 | Wilderness England, my sister Elizabeth and I went on a wonderful hiking trip in |
0:09.2 | England. One day, as part of the trip, our group visited the famous Poison Garden at Anac Castle, place that I've wanted to see four years. |
0:20.0 | Anac Castle is the traditional seat of the Duke of Northumberland and the garden was |
0:24.8 | established by the current Duchess of Northumberland when she and her husband took up residence there. |
0:30.9 | The walled and gated garden is terrific. I was fascinated to learn about all these |
0:36.5 | dangerous plants and how their poisons work and also to hear some famous |
0:41.9 | examples of how people use these poisons in various crimes. |
0:46.0 | Some of the plants are so dangerous that they're kept in cages, |
0:50.0 | and one is even kept in a closed container because merely touching it causes such severe agony. |
0:57.0 | For our tour, we had a terrific guide who was full of information and also very funny. |
1:03.0 | At one point he was explaining how a particular plant could be used as a deadly poison |
1:08.5 | and was also an important ingredient in life saving medicine. |
1:13.2 | I was reminded of one of my secrets of adulthood. |
1:15.9 | Every medicine can become poison. |
1:18.9 | During his discussion, as an aside, |
1:22.3 | our guide made a casual remark that I keep thinking about. He said, |
1:27.0 | oh, that just doesn't want me talking about medicine. She wants me to stick to poison. |
1:32.0 | And I thought, how interesting. |
1:35.0 | I think that's true. |
1:37.0 | People are interested in a poison garden, not a medicine garden. |
1:42.0 | Sure, some people would be interested, |
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