How romantic! I just learned that "the word mistletoe is a compound Old English word combining 'mistel' (which means “dung”) and 'tan' (which means twig) because it looks a bit like bird poop on a stick".
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Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
- Kurt Herbert Alder (1902-1958)
Ben Aaronovitch = Benjamin Aaronson wrote The Rivers of London. I wonder if it's a pen name for my grandpa's grandpa Aaron Benjaminson, who was a farmer in Tanum.
Two students are trying to play verbal chess while digging. The board is in their heads.
Its seeds are spread by the Mistle Thrush, birds that eat the plant's fruit and then poop it out (handily, often on twigs). It's a pretty common strategy in the plant world, as the seed coat is broken down a bit during digestion, which prepares it to sprout (helped along by the handy bit of fertilizer it is sitting in). Seeds found in any kind of berry generally require a trip through a bird's digestive tract in order to germinate. Just another way that plants rule the world!