by admin | Oct 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Great balls of mycelium! If only Jerry Lee Lewis had thought of that lyric his career could have gone in a different direction. When I was out walking naughty Nellie this morning I thought to myself that this autumn wasn’t very mushroomy, but almost immediately...
by admin | Oct 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s October! Can you Adam ‘n’ Eve it? Well yes I can actually, the indicators are all around us, not least the ever decreasing daylight hours. Sunrise is now at 7.00 and sunset is 6.30, and by the end of this month we will be into the dreaded...
by admin | Sep 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
The autumn equinox was yesterday, the time when day and night are of equal length, so it’s all downhill in terms of daylight hours until the winter solstice a few days before Christmas. In the days prior to the equinox the weather had switched quite dramatically...
by admin | Sep 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
I should have taken this week off. Not because I need a holiday or a rest, not to make the most of the warm September weather, not because I have pressing jobs to do at home. No, it’s because this week I am embarrassed by the lack of choice in the shop. The...
by admin | Sep 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Don’t get me wrong, the weather has been amazing….but just a little bit too amazing! Frankly it has been exhausting, not only for me (and probably you too), but also for a lot of the plants. Many of them have just given up, such has been the relentless...
by admin | Sep 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
It was like one of those Loony Tune cartoons when Wily Cayote or a similar hapless fall-guy has a one ton weight dropped on them, or are blown up by a bundle of Acme dynamite. I swayed on the spot, and I swear that a little halo of stars was hovering above my head....
