Well, I have cleaned out my Blog and swept all its posts under the carpet, ready to start afresh. This probably won't last - I hardly blogged at all in the past year but have decided to give it another go, even though nobody reads it. And this time I shall grace it with my own pictures so I'm not breaking any copyright laws or anything.
So, a brief beginning. The picture is of Sansom Wood in Nottingham. Went there for a walk today because it was simply such a nice day. We've finished with the bonkers heatwave we had last month, and now there is a chill in the air, but when the sun is out, autumn is so jolly lovely. It's got pretty colours, fruiting things, fungi and goodness knows what else. Went out in search of fungi, armed with book purchased at beardy man's talk last year. I think it's actually not been damp enough as we didn't really see much at all. Some tiny excuses for mushrooms barely visible to the human eye, and even less so to the Basia eye, and some toxic yellow things growing out of a tree stump.
I like being in the woods - it has that sense of adventure mingled with a bit of fear in case you get lost and have to live on berries in the pitch dark and get eaten by wolves. This has not happened so far. It's also a place that chavs and other urchins don't tend to go as there are no windows to break or sports shop to loot. This is a bonus. The only down side is that people still leave litter about, and bags of dog poo - which is a shame, but I can live with it. Well, when I say I can live with it I don't actually mean live with the bags of dog poo, no, that would never do. Anyway, the woodland walk was lovely, tranquil, unsullied by city brats and car fumes if lacking a little on the fungi front. Next stop, the frozen north.
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