Wednesday 31 October 2012

Little Things

It's been tipping down for most of day here. That sort of windy, grey, wet, gets in your bones kind of a day.We have a solid fuel Rayburn which we hadn't lit for the last four years. That was in the good old days when central heating oil was relatively cheap and sawing up logs wasn't worth the myther. But I lit it today. Believe me, there is nothing as nice as a log fire on a wet day.  I've had the whistling kettle on the hob all day,  (tea on demand) and cooked a chicken in the oven.


When the brook at the end of the road  flooded in September, the torrents brought drift wood and  bits of branches from upstream. When the water subsided we managed to hook a few bits out of the brook and saw them up.


We stored them in wheel barrows in the polytunnel to help them to dry out.


I noticed these little toadstools growing on a piece of waterlogged timber. They're pale yellow with a goldeny bit on the crown. I wouldn't eat them but they're lovely to look at. What are they?

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  1. everywhere I look in the graveyard, in the countryside..all I see is fungi EVERYWHERE
    a produce of a damp summer

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    1. I looked them up on Google but couldn't find what they were. There was an article about fungi in the Times. Apparently it's all due to climate change - perhaps we'll get a lot more of them.

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  2. Ive had my fire going for a couple of weeks now. It saves the gas central heating. We were lucky that when we came here 2 years ago, the wood shed was filled with logs and coal, we're still working through it!
    I shall send my blog friend Cro over to look at your toad stools!

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    1. Kath, How brilliant to have all that coal and logs left in the shed when you moved in. There's nothing like a log fire when the weather's cold and horrible.

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  3. They are pretty indeed. Damp and dismal here as well.

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    1. Delores and Arleen I'm just watching the aftermath of Sandy on the news while I'm typing this. It's telling us that the death toll is now over 80 people and the chaos is horrendous - our bit of damp is nothing to what you've all been through

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  4. It is good that you have plenty of wood, Molly. I bet your house smells wonderful with the chicken in the oven.

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    1. Sue Just hoping we've got enough to last the winter. I might have a go at baking some bread - I love the smell of it baking.

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  5. I love to go to my daughter's and son's homes in the winter and smell and enjoy the heat of their wood stoves. It not only comforts the body but also the mind. I have a gas fireplace which is convenient, but just does not have the ambience.

    Enjoy your chicken, Molly.

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    1. We have a gas heater as well, but it doesn't have the toasty warmth of a log fire.

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  6. Looks to me like the slender version of Honey Fungus. Burn at once, just in case. It's a real pest, killing fruit trees etc.

    Not yet lit our wood fired cooker. Maybe this weekend.

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    1. Cro, you're getting me worried now. As soon as I saw your comment, wet log and mushrooms went straight on the fire. It came from the log pile into the wheel barrow and then into the tunnel so no contact with the soil, (fingers crossed)

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  7. I think they could be 'Sulphur Tuft' which grow in huge numbers in groups on dead wood. Not edible and possibly poisonous.

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    1. Thanks,Tom. I looked up Sulphur Tuft and I think you're spot on.

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  8. There's nothing like a real fire, Molly, and even chopping the wood keeps you warm. :-) No idea about the fungus, I'm afraid.

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    1. And loading up and barrowing it in. Hope you're keeping warm in your little corner of Wales or are you still up in Scotland?

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    2. We'll be in Scotland until early December, Molly. It's much too far to come just for a few days. :-)

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    3. Have a lovely time, hope the weather's good

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  9. Hi Molly, we try to burn wood in our wood stove all winter to save on heating costs. Up until this year we have been given wood by kindly neighbors who had cut down trees. This year we shall be buying some wood but shall still be saving money and getting exercise. Olive

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  10. With the price of fuel going up so much you can't beat free heat, plus hot drinks and cooking! Wonderful!

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  11. My 16 year old car got its warrant with no work needed thank goodness.

    I have been walking with the carer's father in the Parkinson Group for a while now but didn't realise the connection.

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