I walk pretty much every morning through the woodland trail that goes up Moeyan Hill and along the next street along - its about a 40 minute walk - and is pretty aerobic.

Along a section of Borrowdale Close there are some quite large pine trees and there are certain mushrooms that really like that environment. One of them is the quite famous fly agaric. I wanted to check the spelling of 'fly agaric' yesterday and found a web site that has a whole lot of really interesting information about them. I had always understood that this kind of mushroom was deadly if ingested. Now I find that there is poison in the mushroom but the mushroom has psychedelic qualities but there is a rigorous cleansing that has to take place ahead of use of the shroom.

Apparently you can also dry the mushroom and then smoke it.

The conditions must be just right at the moment for the fly agaric, because they are sprouting everywhere at the moment.



Up on the trail I came across another fungus that looks like it would also be fairly noxious - it has a brown/gold colouring - unfortunately not really in focus in this picture taken with my Nokia phone....