[Pantontino]

Greg, to be honest I was surprised that Bonjoy actually had a conventional kitchen. I always imagined that he lived in a cave or down an enlargened rabbit burrow (maybe he's got one of them in the garden - didn't Fred Dibnah build a working mineshaft in his back yard?).

[Toad]

Somewhere like this?

[Rice Boy]

Like Goose said ace post!

Bonjoy: Do you have a knife of choice for picking? Good clean cuts.

Puffballs on toast everytime.

[SA Chris]

Had a look on the golfcourse when I went for a walk at lunch. Spotted a couple of nice ones coming up. Will be ripe for the picking by Monday.

[Bonjoy]

 Got a proper mushrooming knife from the campsite shop when I was in Rodellar. Sharp hooked blade on one end, a brush on the other and a pair of tweezers in a slot. Yesterday was the first time I tried it, it seems pretty good.

[Bonjoy]

Toad - Nice. Did you find that whilst looks for stools?

[Paul B]

didn't Fred Dibnah build a working mineshaft in his back yard?

I think he died before he finished it.

[Bubba]

Is that really the limit of your fungi interests bubba? 

Not entirely - this topic is been very interesting and though i used to roam the fields all day for them as a nipper, I can only see me making a special trip out to gather hallucinogenic ones these days.
If I stumbled across them then that's different.

[underground]

bubbo, I found a couple up at the top of the limestone way path out of Cavedale, no patches though.

[Bubba]

I remember when Hathersage cricket pitch was fucking coated in them - got bags full in no time at all

When I was a kid growing up in't sticks, we'd often come back with a carrier bag full of wild mushrooms from the woods. I guess time is the problem these days.

[lorentz]

Is that really the limit of your fungi interests bubba? 

Not entirely - this topic is been very interesting and though i used to roam the fields all day for them as a nipper, I can only see me making a special trip out to gather hallucinogenic ones these days.
If I stumbled across them then that's different.

 

Best night in i ever had after such a mission. Always well worth that "special trip out!" (good choice of words, Bubba)

[Jim]

I'm suprised the enigma hasn't made a rare visit to this thread.
was stood at the top of cratcliff today demanding binoculas to look for puff balls. The consensus was they were salt lick tubs   

[enigma]

funny that jim cos i already intended to.  i've found loads of mushrooms at gardoms, stanage and cratcliffe but can't positively identify any of them.  the only thing i've been sure of has been a shitty dried up jew's ear (judea auricla).  nice asian woman showed me a good crop of fat hen opposite the broadfield and gave me a recipe.  i've also been shaking down the plums outside the byron, and the house opposite has a pear tree that if you climb on top of the wall you can just reach.  apart from that i've just got a load of elder berries todayy, which i shall be turning into wine soon.

[Houdini]

(Last time I partook of the 'shroom was the last time:

 
Spazzed in the middle of the road at midnight, we are caught in the headlights of an approaching vehicle.  Overcome by The Fear, we hop a fence and find ourselves in an area of deepest Deiniolen recently cleared by fire.  All was ashen and tortured by flame.  I thought I was in Mordor or Nagasaki in '45.  That was the last fucking time, ah tell thee.)

[Bonjoy]

 Biked round the Marin trail in North Wales yesterday. You welsh boys need to get yourself there. There were heaps of fine eating mushrooms (Ceps, Chanterelles, Saffron Milkcaps, Bay Boletus).

[Toad]

Tips: Get the new Roger Phillips guide, it is THE book to have, available in good bookshops or here http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/

Thanks for the link Bonjoy 

I am well excited! I have just picked up the new “mushrooms” book by Roger Philips. 1250 photos of mushrooms and fungi. Views of topside, underside and sections and detailed notes describing what's what and where to find it.

Will be off to the fields and woods this evening “Ray Mears” stylee to see what I can find…

[Bonjoy]

 Quality purchase, you won't regret it. Let me know how you get on.

[7lbs overweight]

Puff Daddy

[Bonjoy]

Nice! I reckon fried in bacon fat or between two layers of beaten egg is the best bet

[Toad]

Went out last night with Mrs Toad for a 4 mile walk through woods, lanes and fields but only found a set of Turkeytail bracket fungus. Looks pretty but unfortunately not edible. Still a bit early in the deep south.



The Roger Phillips book is awesome but a little large to have on me at all times. Does anyone have any recomendations for a pocket-sized mushroom book that could be slipped into the top of a rucksack whilst out and about?

[grimer]

You've got me into this now too, and got myself a mushroom book. Any chance of a Bonjoy led mushroom meet after work some day? Perhaps Bubba could also deliver a lecture.

[Bonjoy]

 Yes certainly if anyones keen. Am fairly busy this week but could do next Wednesday perhaps. The Longshaw circuit would make a good intro.

[Johnny Brown]

Genius - a UKB foray. I'm in, but what will Mick make of it?

[account_inactive]

There probably would'nt be mushroom for a fungi like Mick...........


I'll get my coat

[andy_e]

 

I was waiting for that joke to rear its ugly head.