Jaca in English

I found this on the Downs above Great Ballard, Eartham. My brother says, after having great difficulty in looking it up, that it's called Phacelia tanacetifolium and is an annual garden flower used as agreen maure or to attract insects. It's sometimes called scorpionweed. Of course its not in the wild flower books. It isn't pretty, but rather striking. 

By Michael

This is Halnaker mill, as in the poem by Hilaire Belloc

Ha'nacker Mill

Hilaire Belloc

Sally is gone that was so kindly,
Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill
And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;
And ever since then the clapper is still...
And the sweeps have fallen from Ha'nacker Mill.

Ha'nacker Hill is in Desolation:
Ruin a-top and a field unploughed.
And Spirits that call on a fallen nation,
Spirits that loved her calling aloud,
Spirits abroad in a windy cloud.

Spirits that call and no one answers --
Ha'nacker's down and England's done.
Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers,
And never a ploughman under the Sun:
Never a ploughman. Never a one

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