Last of the Summer Wine

[Julie]

Last of the summer wine 

Autumn flows into our golden times

We put our best foot forward and writes in rhymes

The countryside is mellow, it heals each day

On hills or meadows, the village clock chimes!

Julie

October 2026

[Julie]

Yes, little brown ones Vlada.  Your experience explains the magical energy I've felt over the years amongst the trees in places of nature.  I remember walking along the Wirral Way when my son was little and felt the urge to skip along with a big smile on my face and that's what I did, it felt wonderful !

Good memories are always needed Vlada, hold onto them, new memories are always on their way to us, joyful ones.  Playful energies amongst nature is the order of the day!

I guess the little mushrooms in the compost are because the compost makers are now using spent mushroom compost and not peat based.  The little shrooms pop up so suddenly, they're magical is many ways.

[Ꮙℓἇ∂ἇ..aka Reɪvən ღ]

Yes it was all over our news of course being so close, but it didn't come to completion until just recently she was found guilty of murder of 3 & attempted on one was convicted in just July last year..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leongatha_mushroom_murders

Little brown ones in your potting mix you say, like these one in the image below they will grow on grass and on any wood pieces in the compost.. your actually growing 'magic mushrooms' then Julie for real, they give people a high lol...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe

When I went to Wales I saw many a forest they were wonderful wooded areas to walk in, and yes a wonderful places for kids to run about in too..I grew up with a red wood forest just down the road, and I was their every day after school, making tree huts or just generally playing making bridges over a small stream in there, there was also marsh areas so gumboots were a definite thing to be wearing, I had so much fun in that place really good memories. it was there I saw my first elf folk, I first thought it was mice in the leaves & grass, as I'd hear like a scurrying sound when I walked past it.. so one day I took my small pocket camera there convinced I was going to catch these things making this sound, and I did they were wood folk ...elf like with clothing made of natures materials, I saw one that was carrying a bow n arrow, and he was dirty and scruffy, and a definite hunter gatherer... another looked like a wizard wearing long grey robes, he had a staff also... they were very good at being statues, when they thought I was watching LOL I had fun I tell yah.. but they never once spoke to me directly, just I saw them..

[Julie]

That was quite a case by the sound of it, so much evidence! 

[Julie]

sounds like Jeremy Clarkson, he was a bit like that on the car programme we used to watch called Top Gear.

Yes for sure Vlada, I started looking into the mushrooms to see what they were when little pup was staying just in case they were poisonous.  The ones in the house plant pots had just been repotted when I noticed the little dark mushrooms growing in the pots, small like yours but a very dark brown colour.

I'd bought a book, long time ago now ,about mushrooms as I was going to forage but I never really got the hang of it as so many look alike.  I always get a burst of excitement when I spot mushrooms and fungi, lichen, moss small wild flowers etc.  while out walking, I feel they are magical.  I first remember as a child walking through Delamere Forest or Clocaenog Forest ...my parents took me there.

About the forest on Wikipedia

The energies of nature teach so much.

Thanks for the video, I'll watch it later today, think I've perhaps got vague memories of this happening

[Ꮙℓἇ∂ἇ..aka Reɪvən ღ]

Awhh yes Jeremy is trying to be a farmer but he's got money to do it, I just find his failures funny as, and it seems to be ongoing, like a comedy of errors.. everything he puts his hands to fails LOL.. but we still have heaps more episodes to go, he's just getting his new restaurant up in running in last nights episode, and he went off his face at his farm manager blamed him for his own error of backing the tractors grain bin into the barn & hitting the door frame.. see everyone else is at blame not him..

Now be careful of the mushrooms that grow in your houseplants compost, they are not edible and are poisonous.. I found some too, yellow ones.. I go foraging often, I have tried some I've found, but I always identify them first before tasting, its imperative there are a number that look similar to edible but arn't...there was a murder case in the news 3 yrs ago in Australia where a woman tried to kill her in laws by poisoning a beef wellington dinner she had invited them to attend ..along with her pastor with poisonous mushrooms, she claimed it was accidental, but it was proven not to be...

here's the case out of interest..

These are the mushrooms in my pot plants.. they look like beautiful parasol mushrooms but not edible.. ones on your lawn if they are brown gilled under them then they are safe to eat..but research them first regardless..

[Julie]

Ahhh right, found a way without joining Vlada, like you too I'm not on facebook either.  I put my birthdate in and I could view!  Looks like Jeremy Clarkson has a lot to learn about farming and he has a very savvy farm manager.

Now that's another thing I've been watching a guy on Youtube, think he's English living in Wales and he hunts mushrooms, so many different ones there is too.  They've been growing in my houseplants from I think the compost and there's been a big bunch on my lawn too this year.  

[Ꮙℓἇ∂ἇ..aka Reɪvən ღ]

No you don't have to join TikTok to see the clips from those links. just click them and then remove the sign up section if it pops up by clicking the cross in the far corner and it will play for you, if you move off it then it might close on you,... I'm not on Tik Tok myself nor facebook..

[Julie]

Ahhh yes quite different Pale Duck was pale compared to the rest and I wondered if her mum was who I called White Duck, or in my story of her White Evangeline, mother of little Egbert.

Loved the video, thanks Vlada

We saw a little of Jeremy Clarkson's eating place on another channel we visit called Gary Eats, he did a good review of the food there.

Think I would need to join tick-tock to see the clips, just had a try and couldn't view

I follow the farming series with Amanda Owen and her family, they have a sheep farm and are renovating the house next door Anty Johns

Anty John's (also known as High Smithy Holme) is . It is the main focus of the Channel 4 / More4 series Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids. 

I've bought several of Amanda's books over the last few years, and I believe recently she's written children's books too.

Looking back into the family history I have farming in the blood, many either worked on farms or had farms...maybe I'm a frustrated farmer type!

[Ꮙℓἇ∂ἇ..aka Reɪvən ღ]

Yeah now that ducks is sweet but its a light mallard,...cocoa had a totally different head pattern as she was a Welsh Harlequin/Saxony breed ...Walnut has some in here also as I got her from the same breeder..Here is the Saxony breed ducks to compare.

she was a smart duck too, so sad she passed away.. they do make good pets, once they feel safe around you.. mine have never tried to fly away out the section, they know the fence line is it, mind you I have a quarter ace section so its like they are in the wild anyway and probably why they don't leave it, they can fly I havn't ever cut their wings,... I have seen Walnut flap her wings and take off, but never above the 6ft yard fence height and she wont leave Oreo behind anyway as they have paired.. even though they are both female this still happens...

I've been watching that British TV show of Jeremy Clarkson's on his farm, it's been a hilarious show, he's not a farmer by any means no matter how hard he tries to be, I laughed so hard when he tried to keep his piglets apart, and created this small electrified section pen that he put the runt of the litter in with one pig as it was being bullied by the larger male pigs and the other one he put it in with jumped on top of it, right in fount of him as he let it go and he was horrified that he had homosexual pigs..

I was just in hysterics laughing on the floor it was so funny.. but other things he does too I'm laughing at...like he upgraded his helper tractor driving dude to Farm manager and the instant he told him this the dude turned around and said ok then "in which case your fired!"  Jeremy said you cant fire me I own the farm, and the dude said you may own it but your not running it I am..LOL.. should have seen his face it was priceless..LOL its a great show..here's a link to that clip ..

https://www.tiktok.com/@primevideoaunz/video/7379515187226774800

He's also looses money on this farm big time ... like he was trying to grow mushrooms for his restaurant and tried each time failing to mold bacteria .. I was like OMG you have that kind of money to spare.. thousands of dollars of spore bags useless just rotted & were destroyed.. One thousand one hundred and fifty six pounds and he tried again 3 times!,..link to that scene..

https://www.tiktok.com/@itsthegrandtour/video/7374460767682301216

Its a good show mind you, he's trying so hard to make a living and failing miserably...wasting a woad of money in the process and thus a total comedy of affairs. But the farmland & area is awesome and he has helpers so it's been extremely entertaining.. I must say none of the British farmers are like our NZ farmers, they do things so differently..

[Julie]

Love the cute frog, hoping for frogs in our pond next year, think it's had a slow leak and it dried up this summer with the intense heat, the lilies and marsh marigolds are coming back to life now.

Yes Bonnie :) think she was named after a pirate.  Heidi is on the stretch of canal that had the breach back in December, so she's not been trading her pirate wares this year.  Just looked it up Anne Bonny was an Irish pirate, so must be named after her Vlada.

Yes, beautiful cat, there was a beauty down the road from mum so kittens were beautiful. Their noses are adorable for sure.

My first cat was a black cat called Sambo I used to carry him about and try and dress him, I loved my dollies and teddies and tea parties, a very girly girl I was, probably still am Vlada.

Think we had a ginger cat after Sambo died.

One of the cats we had back then used to love sitting under the kitchen table, it was a warm spot with the Baxi fire being on the other side of the wall.  I used to drape things over the table, like a little tent and spend time with the cat, very cosy

I remember having stick insects off my friend's brother when I was around 10 or 11.  

I love ducks, and must admit to having a favourite duck at the marina, I called her pale duck and even painted a picture of her from a photo I took.  She looked just like your Cocoa.

Pale duck disappeared, not sure what happened to her, I miss her as we'd made friends and she used to come and tap on the boat window to get our attention when she wanted food and she let me stroke her, it was a beautiful experience.