What is happening? Everyone we know seems to be growing mushrooms in their lawns. None is doing it intentionally but all are proving very successful at it. Some of them look edible although others look nothing short of lethal or at best likely to send you on a funny journey that you were not really expecting. My Mistress has removed and got rid of the biggest of the offenders but it would take all day to get all of them. It’s coming to something when you have to continue to mow your lawn through the winter just to get rid of the mushrooms. The good weather has helped me to forget that winter is fast approaching. My Mistress was saying there are a lot more leaves off the trees further south than there are here. Some of the trees here are still in full leaf. It does seem to depend on what variety they are as others are beginning to look quite bare. On the bright said it did make it possible for my Mistress to collect a whole load of conkers for my Master when she took Ari out for a walk first thing on Sunday morning. She said they must have all come down overnight and she had got to them before anyone else. She filled her pockets and did say she could have brought back more when she walked Shadow but you have to draw the line somewhere.
She took Megan for a different walk yesterday on the old airfield. I think she reads too many horror stories as she said that if she walked right to the back it was so out of the way and eerie it felt like there could be all sorts of trouble lurking around. Isn’t it funny how some places just give you that feeling?
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