A Soapy Cabbage Leaf

 The latest edition of The Cabbage Leaf, from Botany and other Stories, is out now, and this issue is devoted to the letter S, for Soap and Scent - soap for Sanitation in this time of pandemic, and scent because one of the symptoms of Covid-19 is loss of smell and taste.  There's an interview with local biochemist Raphaella Hull, on flower scents, and an article on incense burners by Denise Darbyshire, who works for the Ashmolean Museum.  Suzy Branson reviews the novel Perfume and Marie-Jeanne Winstone talks about her favourite flowers from her childhood home in Belgium.

There's another S in the magazine, too - Spotty the pony, who has been trained to work as a therapy pony, and lives at Brilleywood Livery.