Mushrooms in the Morning
I walked the fields this morning and found there were a lot of mushrooms.
Mushrooms in the Morning
You can’t see it very well in this photograph, but there was a complete circle.
Mushrooms in the Morning - 2
This picture taken from a different direction shows the circle a little bit better.
Mushrooms in the Morning - 3
There were a tremendous number of them.
What puzzles me, is why are they in a complete circle around an oak tree?
Judy Dyble has pointed me to an explanation in Wikipedia.
Two Lemons for Asda
This must be one of the silliest health and safety stories in recent years.
Chris Pether, a retired oil-worker from Aberdeen, was refused permission to buy two loose lemons, because it was felt that he might throw them at others.
In the end he made two separate purchases.
Geoffrey Boycott
I like Geoffrey Boycott and his pithy comment.
And now he has a web site, where we can read him even more.
What is technically interesting about his web site, is that it is almost-pure WordPress, with just a little tweaking and customisation. In other words it uses the same techniques as this blog does.
Who in their right mind would pay a fortune for a proper web site, when you can have an easy-to-update one based on something like WordPress or Blogger?
If You Don’t Like the Message, Shoot the Messenger
Professor David Nutt‘s sacking by Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, is a classic case of, “if you don’t like the message, shoot the messenger”.
I should say now that I have never knowingly taken any illegal drugs. I say knowingly, as I might have had some cake with cannabis in it in the 1960s or 70s. On the other hand in those days, I rarely ate cake, so probably that route of illegal imbibing was closed.
I don’t smoke, although I’ve had perhaps a hundred cigarettes in the past, but I do drink some alcohol. I wish sometimes I do drink less. But at least since my wife died, I’ve probably only been near the drink-drive limit once. And that was on my birthday. And at home too!
Now, I’m very much an anti-smoker and don’t let anybody smoke in my house, cars or office. I’m also pretty much against illegal drugs and a lot of legal ones too. As a coeliac, I know how ill a banned substance can make my body. And that is only the gluten found in wheat, barley and rye.
So I think the best advice is to avoid anything that has a negative affect.
But I still drink alcohol. On the other hand, if a doctor, said to me that I mustn’t drink it, I would find something else like Belvoir Ginger Beer to waste my money on.
Read Professor Nutt’s bio and research history and you’ll see that the word eminent was designed to be used for him. So when Johnson sacks him for speaking the truth, we should all take note. On the one hand, we should read and take action on what the Professor says and on the other we should distrust even more what Prudence and his wretched Government, try and bambozzle us with.
The Anonymous Widower 