Fruits of the land at Aldreth while we watch the rain

Moored Aldreth, River Gt Ouse

We were going to pull the pins this morning, but decided to stay put and watch the rain all day instead..

But this is a delightful mooring which we are in no hurry to move from.  We do have to move tomorrow though as we are only allowed 48 hours on this GOBA mooring. 

It has been steady rain all day as you can see in the pic, not heavy just steady, so this morning I took Lucy and Meg for a couple of hours over the fenland. 

It is a good time of year for fruits of the land, and here on this tree I am sure this is Hen of the Woods.. an edible fungus.. Well I think it is Hen of the Woods, I didn’t bring any back to identify it properly.. but hey Kevin.. wadda you think?

The best time for finding edible fungus and mushrooms is in the autumn, so to see this at this time of year must mean that it is quite old, and probably very tough!.. So I left it there, and will wait ‘till younger stuff pokes it head out of the ground!..

I enjoy finding and eating fruits of the land.. not only berries and mushrooms when I can find them, but wild garlic, herbs and anything else I might dare try..

An interesting waterways news snippet I saw today – British Waterways have annoyed the locals by getting rid of a single bad word from a graffiti riddled canal bridge.. they left the rest of the graffiti there!

“A string of complaints about graffiti on a Staffordshire canal bridge led to all the offensive words being removed – but the remaining scrawl was left behind due to “budget constraints”, a move which has left the community enraged.

Staffordshire County Councillor Matthew Ellis has branded the move “jobsworth bureaucracy gone mad”. He said the Government-funded agency British Waterways had wasted taxpayers’ money by only removing selected parts of the graffiti from the bridge in Bonehill, Lichfield.”

I know BW say that they clear offensive words from Graffiti within 24 hours of them appearing, but I wonder how long it will be before they will be back to clear the rest.. they say it is part of maintenance to clear the rest.. Deary me.. that may mean lots of graffiti for a long time then

Onward tomorrow to the Pike and Eel, or even St Ives.. It depends on the weather..