A mushroom story for you!

[Colin Howard]

Greetings,

Note, I believe some of you may have received this back in 2018 but others
might enjoy the message.

It comes from my having to go through thousands of posts since my email
client has needed to be reinstalled a dew days ago, due to problems, meaning
I am now using an IMap account instead of Pop3, it looks as if Goodle, in
their wisdom, may have discontinued Pop3, I don't recall seeing any kind of
communication advising when, if this would happen.

Enjoy!!

all seemed to happen when living in South Wales in the late sixties as with
the wasp yesterday!

At home for half term can't remember if 1967, 8 or 9, it was not the year of
foot and mouth, can't remember which of those this was.

Note, since discovered, f&m was Autumn 1968.

Living in South Wales, same place as yesterday's wasp, we used to take our
Yorkshire Terrier and Labrador out for a run over nearby fields. One
evening, it was a lovely warm day, must have been about sixish, we came
across an absolutely huge horse mushroom, the biggest I've ever met, must
have been about two foot across and eight or so inches off the ground,
growing under I can't remember what kind of tree. We took it home and
weighed it, if I recall correctly, it was somewhere in the region of two
pounds! We three, mum, dad and I, ate it with bacon and can't remember what
else, the flavour proved to be absolutely wonderful!

Following over the next few days, we went to another nearby field and found
absolutely thousands of ordinary mushrooms growing, so many, no way could we
pick them but took a load home, freezing some and eating others.

On the next day, taking the dogs out, our Lab, when she saw the field with
even more of those little white domes showing, barked and wagged and became
very excited. Others, by now, had found them and loads of people took them.

The farmer decided to trash the rest, never again did we see such an
abundance.

Incidentally, I am now totally blind, never had good sight always
registered, then, though, I had some sight and could see the white domes in
the grass!

--
Colin R. Howard,from southern England.

[david.g...@gmail.com]

Colin,

I used to go walking in the woods and fields with a good friend of the family in the early to mid sixties. We regularly used to pick mushrooms

We had no idea what we were picking, and, my Mam used to cook them, and we would eat them with no ill effects.

I wonder why so many people today have difficulty with eating certain foods, and, has this always been the case but we just didn't hear about it?

Dave Stephenson.

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