Pennyroyal

Pennyroyal came up about three months ago now, at the end of reference 1, there spelt as two words. A herb described more fully at reference 2. A herb once used for all kinds of things, both on bugs and on humans, including mixing it with alcohol and using it as an abortifacient.

Then a couple of evening ago, it cropped up again in a 2009 adaptation of an Agatha Christie story called 'Murder is Easy', one of those stories into which the television people have seen fit to intrude Miss. Marple, presumably on account of her pulling power. 

A story in which abortion turned out to have an important role - a story line which might well have been of some interest when the story was written in 1939, with legalisation near thirty years off. However, it seems that this adaptation did rather drastic things with the story as supplied by Christie, and the abortions may be just another intrusion. Luckily, I find we do have a copy of the story as supplied and checking there will start forthwith. Sadly though, given our failure to buy a modern television, which could have done an action replay for us, we shall just have to wait until the adaptation comes around again to find out exactly what went on there, to compare and contrast properly. 

Do I feel a Powerpoint (©Microsoft) diagram of the story coming on, often a very useful aid to pensioner comprehension?

PS: will it take us another thirty years to sort out assisted dying and recreational drugs, two other delicate topics which we seem to be stuck on?

Reference 1: psmv4: Haw jelly.

Reference 2: Mentha pulegium - Wikipedia. The source of the snap above.