Future foraging

The forecast was spot on today, rain till lunch then gradually brightening. So I used the morning to do every conceivable office task except writing last weeks minutes - still pondering how to record such an appalling meeting!

After lunch we wandered out - it was surprisingly wet underfoot so we took a tractor track we've not followed before - and it was wonderful. Up under a spectacularly green hawthorne tree i paused to consider a blip. My eye was taken by the odd rounded rocks dotted on the ground - very incongruous - but upon inspection they were the remains of giant puffball mushrooms - and they really are giant. The smallest (see extra, in hand) was probably 6" in diameter - to the left in the main blip is the largest - nearer to 14". As these are one of the best of all foragable foods Ill be returning later in the year!
Back home and the sun drew all of Team IttH into the garden. One to snooze on the stones, one to put seeds out in the greenhouse and yours truly to begin to tackle the laughably titled fruit garden. This area was really badly hit by the flooding and has beem effectively wild for two years. Part will go with a new path, but some can hopefully be recovered - even if only to attract wildlife. I dug out amd moved yet another blackcurrant bush (these we generate kilo after kilo - but for what i dont know) and them slowly recovered the gooseberry & blueberry bushes, before planting some more loganberry and autumn raspberrys. Them yet more weed fabric and 40-80mm floodproof rocks. A 2m section done, just 6m to go.