(181) Five Hundred Cuts

Picked up a bottle of rum from the Brewdog distillery at the supermarket today. The online reviews are very mixed but I have to say that it works well for me. Blurb on the bottle labels says.....Five Hundred Cuts pays tribute to the unbreakable spirit of Aberdonian heroine Elizabeth Blackwell. In 1734 with her husband in a debtor’s prison, she used her knowledge of botanicals and herbs to write the pioneering guide to herbal medicine ‘A Curious Herbal’. Despite being crippled by debt and with a family to feed, she illustrated and engraved the 500 botanicals (known as ‘cuts’) herself, and used the success of the book to free her husband from prison.


Cheers!