I’ve finished my destruction of the inside of our house for the time being – I have to wait now for the next builder to come and do his stuff.

So, I’ve taken advantage of a glorious, if cold, day to do some chores in the garden, including cutting the grass. We’ve got about a dozen different varieties of mushroom growing in our lawns (maybe more, but that’s how many different types I detect). These cute little yellow fellas were growing in the front lawn.

They come up looking like little yellow blobs – not mushroom shaped at all, then after a few days, they spread into mushroom shape and then the tops of the caps whiten and they sort of curl inside out. Although I hate the fact that I knocked them all over to mow the lawn, I’d rather get the job done than leave them to do their stuff so I ran the lawnmower over the lot. Destruction of a different kind.

This one got knocked down by the cable and upturned the yellowness of the first sighting has not diminished at all, not like the outside of the cap. In the evening sunshine, I just thought it looked so nice that it symbolized some brightness coming back into our lives.

The worst of the ‘demolition’ is now over. The wiring is finished and a man popped into the garden today saying he’d heard we needed some rubbish cleared. I thought he might be a little bit of good fortune coming our way so I locked him in the shed so he couldn’t escape or change his mind. (Not really before you call the police.) The skip full of Mad Maureen’s nasty stuff has gone and even though there is another skip load waiting to be hauled out from bushes and into another skip, we now have someone who is prepared to undertake this nasty job for money – hurrah.

I have noticed a definite lacking of a good mushroom site online – I tried to find out what this is and searched a couple of dozen websites before giving up from the boredom of looking at a bunch of bad photos of mushrooms that it’d be hard to actually identify a ‘living’ one from. The best mushroom shots I’ve seen, without doubt are the pbase ones.

There was a huge concrete eating machine outside my office last year....now there are new yuppie flats!