More mellow fruitfulness

My drainage problems have been sorted, causing some disruption to the village as the whole road was dug up! It took 4 days to clear the drains and provide me with a drain that now connects to the sewage in a sensible place, but all is now well.

The last few weeks have been very wet, interspersed with the odd dry sunny day, just to cheer us up. This has resulted in a burgeoning of mushrooms and toadstools. Tina called on me the other day to suggest we go mushroom hunting We found loads of these, I recognised them as Inkcaps and was sure they are edible as I have eaten them in the past.

We picked a lot, not for me as I do not like them but Tina was prepared to give them a go even though she didn't know them. I was reluctant to take responsibility for her eating mushrooms on my recommendation, so hurried to check on the web. I was, and still am, sure that these are Coprinus comatus and are edible when young (before they turn inky) but when translating the info I also turned up information on Coprinus atramentarius, which said about not drinking alcohol, this was stressed very much in the Spanish information though less so in the English, probably because there was a greater certainty of the Spanish drinking alcohol with a meal! In the end she decided not to eat them!

There were some of Parasol mushrooms, Macrolepiota procera, most were getting a little old but we picked a few. I was reluctant again, wisely I think, to eat these without clear identification, even though Tina seemed confident that they were edible. So I took spore prints overnight and looked them up. They were delicious!

I'm not sure what these are, some kind of Lactarius I think. I wasn't stupid enough to pick them.

Nor this one, though it looks very pretty.