You can't have too many hard boiled eggs

Although this would be a lot.

It may look like a bumper day at the cafe but rest assured these are minuscule, and not eggs either. They are the sporangia of a slime mould  (Tricia varia I think) which at a glance looked like a rime of frosting across the surface of a rotten log. Through a lens each individual pinhead is revealed as glossy ovoid structure that will darken and deliquesce as it matures. 
Slime moulds, which are not fungi but organisms that possess both mobility and, it seems, motivation, are so fascinating that every time I find a new one I end up spending hours reading about them and watching the extraordinary footage that exists about their powers of movement and 'choice' in determining the most rapid route to a food source, and the uses to which these abilities have been put - in working out transport systems for example.

This time around I've learnt that 
*there's a slime mould artist whose work is devoted to the subject - she even makes slime-mould greetings cards;
* a Japanese slime mould enthusiast Minakata Kumagusa  was said to have trained his cats to keep slugs away from his precious  slime mould collection (I don't believe it);
* you can watch a slime mould version of the intro to Game of Thrones here;
* and there's now a feature-length film all about slime-moulds which I would kill  to see.