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28th April 2010 – Cowpats and the Keys to Heaven

Today is my mother-in-law’s birthday, I can’t tell you which one because I would be in big trouble, but Happy Birthday, Mary!

We made a visit to the bird reserve in Conwy and had a rather good cup of hot chocolate in the cafe, anyway on the way out I spotted this patch of cowslips. Apparently the name comes from the Old English for cowpat, – “cuslyppe” because it grows in meadows used by cows.   According to legend, St Peter dropped the keys to Heaven and where they landed Cowslips grew.

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