No rain - but not for long

The weather forecast says that the dry heatwave is coming to an end, and this is great news for all mushroom hunters. This weekend, while waiting for the life-giving moisture to fall from the sky, I checked out the local woodland, in the mad hope that somehow, somewhere, fungal life will manifest itself.

Good news: I found some mushrooms. Bad news: they were neither edible nor easily recognisable. They were growing on a living tree about 3m above the ground  - probably some sort of polypore. Really big ones: the largest must have been 30cm or so across.

1.1 kg of wild strawberries

I do apologise for a bad picture of unexciting mushrooms - this is no good for a Monday foraging report, but hey, don't blame me. Blame Scottish weather. It is used to it anyway.

By way of tiny compensation for this disappointment, here is an image of last week's complete strawberry crop - this time I managed to snap a shot before it was gobbled up.

And now, since woodland has not been kind enough to provide, I'm off to the shops for some ingredients for tomorrow's recipe. See you soon!