Another magnificently named mushroom amongst our trees - Clitocybe fragrans, the Fragrant Funnel - which really does smell aniseedy up close. #fungifriends

Nice to hear I’m not the only one for whom every thing is an opportunity to bore the kids with interesting tree facts. This morning it will be Osage oranges and woolly mammoths over breakfast…

Today’s clue’s in the question: What is the name of these sticky mushroom with the scaly caps? #fungifriends #stickyscalycapmushroom

Today’s clue’s in the question - what’s is that red lead coloured round topped mushroom called? #fungifriends #redleadroundtopmushroom

The magnificently named Sordid Blewit #fungifriends

There’s a whole town of ink caps sprouting in the garden. #fungifriends

Delighted to see that West Ham are not put off employing someone as their social media manager just because they’re colour blind ⚒️

I don’t know why, but this just made day 🤣

WAITRESS: Would you like to try a quesadilla? ME: I can barely eat one dilla, let alone a whole case.

The best 6 seconds today

Whoa. Got up this morning for work and needed to turn on the lights. This is unacceptable; I am NOT ready for winter yet.

To put a smile on your face- youtu.be/6vvwo82V3go?...

Hmmm...the UK recycled oil revenue into tax cuts from its North Sea oil, whilst Norway reinvested into the country. Norway's GDP per capita has grown faster, and is now 68% higher than the UK, and at $1.5trn, Norway has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world.

Welcome to Planet Fungi 🪐🍄 These photos may look like science fiction, but you haven't landed on another planet – these otherworldly organisms are here on Earth. 1) Marasmius sp. 2) Pseudocolus fusiformis 3) Cookeina insititia 4) Physcia jackii & Teloschistes sieberianus #FungiFriday #PlanetFungi

In case anyone’s watching Live Aid at 40 and wondering what’s next - from my programme from the day

Statistically, I am more likely than not to tear my hair out at people’s complete illiteracy when it comes to probabilities than anything else

Guernsey looks little from an Air UK F22, but it’s quite big when you’re here.

Marion & I went & saw lovely little chapel covered in broken crockery & clockmakers.

Best gig I ever saw was the Banshees at Hammersmith Palais in 1983(ish). Got crushed at the front, passed out, lifted over everyone’s heads, dumped at the back, got my breath back and made it back to the front in time for the encore. They were magnificent.

Fascinating Ed Luce interview of Steve Bannon, which really explains where MAGA is going and why it is seen as so attractive to so many, and why the first 100 days of the Trump administration is seen as such a success by so many people. www.ft.com/video/7c0c82...

Having lived in Moscow, I have no words…

The US already devotes more than 40 million acres to growing corn for ethanol fuel production. If only ~1/3 of that land were converted to solar PV, it could generate enough electricity to cover the entire country's electricity needs.

Underrated post

Today, March 20th, is Rewilding Day. To celebrate, a couple of wild Irish Atlantic rainforest images. Rewilding isn't just the means by which nature loss is reversed: it's how we can reconnect with the natural world, and each other. But Ireland is way behind: let's catch up! 🌍

The woman who taught Einstein: Emmy Noether is responsible for an idea so important that it ranks alongside Charles Darwin’s concept of evolution by natural selection as a central and unifying principle in science… marcuschown.com/article/the-... prospectmagazine.co.uk

Turkey Tail, King Alfred’s Cake and Hairy Curtain Crust (what a great name), all living happily together on a beech tree #fungifriends

Welcome to Rewild! If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you! www.rewildyourland.ie

A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Been thinking about this speech a lot lately. One for all those happy to burn the rule of law because it's their side doing it this time. youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk?...

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Forest walk #fungifriends

This is the most surreal news segment I've ever seen in my 40+ years. Prisoners are interacting with the news by shouting communication over the walls and flickering light switches while watching the news on the TV from lockup.

What could possibly go wrong 🤷‍♂️

The global North needs to wake up to what Africa really is, has the potential to become and understand how to work with it on its terms, not those historically imposed from outside.

Can relate

Sloe gin all bottled up, sloe port now maturing in the cupboard, my workday is done. Proper football ⚽️ on TV until the colonial version later 🏈 Disturb me at your peril.

Not an entirely accurate headline - a “lorry-load of antimatter” would be enough to destroy the Earth, although the Earth would struggle to provide sufficient energy to create it in the first place. Almost like The Guardian is reducing itself to producing clickbait 🤔

One of my ❤️ pieces of trivia: Bogart, together with the Baldwin brothers, Christopher Lloyd, William H Macy, Chevy Chase and John Lithgow, to say nothing of both Georges and Jeb Bush, FDR and Dr Spock would never have existed had John Howland not been saved when he fell overboard on the Mayflower

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Leaked photo of NASA taking the sun down for maintenance

Never got over the fact that I gave away a Cabbage Patch Kid, signed by their creator Xavier something or other, to Nicky Potts the week before she dumped me.

#fungiarethefuture

Sign of a nice healthy soil underneath our lawn is a steady stream of different mushrooms popping their heads all year to say hello #fungifriends

The latest from South Korea ->

Christmas 2024 is a Die Hard movie.

This put a smile on my face and a skip in my step. I’m off to listen to some more Bob pearls of wisdom before facing the day…

We assume that somehow as a species we are more intelligent now than in the past, because we utilise different technologies, despite having the same brain with the same capabilities for the last three hundred thousand years. Imagine what really smart stuff has been lost to history…

Depressing to see my Democrat friends desperately defending Joe Biden’s pardoning his son. Until and unless you move on from his legacy you are not going to win back the American people. Not saying the pardon was wrong, but you can’t win if you can’t see he is the reason that you are where you are.

The last Buffalo Soldier has just passed away.