All thanks to fungi feeding the tree by turning rock into nutrients and finding water, in exchange for sugars from sunlight. Ain't nature quite the thing.

Some of them have a very distinctive smell, although most mainly smell mushroomy, just as some of them change colour when cut or bruised, but most don’t…

Thank you, it was one of those where you put your phone amongst the leaf litter, hit the button and hope, then you look at the result and think “Holy crap, that is a lot better than I thought it would be” 🤣

Some more around the garden today, in a rare moment of sunshine on a cloudy day

Would you believe it's the Sticky Scalycap...

Leratiomyces ceres - the Redlead Roundhead mushroom (as I said, clue is in the question...)

Sure is! Fittingly, it’s an Ugly Milk-Cap 🍄‍🟫

You isolate the leader, by a light rev of the engine; he will then pull over as far as possible to prevent any overtaking, you then surgically remove him, sparing his followers, who will go on to spread the word of the folly of riding three abreast…

I remember a few years ago watching someone stand in front of such a sight in awe, wonder and just a little bemusement, before grabbing a pint glass and pouring Baileys almost to the top, leaving enough room for two ice cubes…

I can guarantee you, without fear of contradiction by anyone who has studied any history, that this doesn’t come close the the first few volumes of “darkest chapters in the UK's colonial imperialist history”.

Can’t believe there was a Marlboro ad on the back!