Large cabbage leaves were sometimes tucked inside a hat by labourers, harvesters and gardeners in Britain and parts of continental Europe to keep the head cool.
Here we have mugwort, once placed inside the sandals of Roman legionnaires to ward off fatigue and later, its aromatic foliage worn as a garland to ward off sunstroke to boot.
It was only fitting then that today, at the beginning of another canicule, it was growing freely next to the Forest Parking.