A BOY was stung by aNettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, "Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently." "That was just why it stung you," said his Mother.

And at last Joe, representing a whole tribe of weeping outlaws, dragged him sadly forth, gave his bow into his feeble hands, and Tom said, "Where this arrow falls, there bury poor Robin Hood under the green- wood tree." Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on anettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse.

But though Stepan Arkadyevitch was accustomed to very different dinners, he thought everything excellent: the herb brandy, and the bread, and the butter, and above all the salt goose and the mushrooms, and thenettle soup, and the chicken in white sauce, and the white Crimean wine-- everything was superb and delicious.

As I thought of all I owed that noble fish, I kneeled by the river's bearded lip, among thenettles and the meadowsweet, and swore by the inconstant moon that trout and I were henceforth kinsmen, and that between our houses should be an eternal amity.

I am not fond ofnettles or thistles, or heath blossoms.

The 70-year-old heir to the British throne teamed up with sustainable fashion discovers Vin + Omi to create an avant-garde collection of clothing made entirely fromnettles, a common weed found around the world which will be supplied from his private Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire, reported People.

The hairs, or spines, of the stingingnettle are normally very painful to the touch.

The West Midlands has a richnettle eating tradition and, in 2017, Solihull's Jon Searle lifted the crown with a 70 foot sitting.

Who needs track and field when you've gotnettle eating, a sport where doping carries grave risks?

The sting of an old, dyingnettle seems to be a lot worse than that of a young, naivenettle, as though they are having one last swansong.