It's a lovely day here.

Looking at the news just now, I was concerned whether Steve had managed to keep his feet dry!! Luckily iirc he’s halfway up a mountain so should have a good view of the big puddles!!

Been terrible here since about Tuesday. Blowing a hooligan, freezing and rain on and off. Just normal northwales crappy weather.

I’m a glass half full type of guy. I’m half way up. ?

I didn’t see your post John otherwise I’d of replied last night. Soz.

Just seen your pics of your walk, Bob.   That’s the kind of walk I love to take around 4am on a mid summer morning.   Sun up, open space, waves rolling in but absolutely no-one in sight.   The bliss that at times total solitude can be.

Today is a new kettle of fish for us with no overnight or morning rain. I went out with the dogs and is was just under ten degrees, now an hour or two later it is showing just under seventeen, that is progress. No hat or gloves today and no mud bath for the dogs, civilisation may yet be saved. A check of the garden for new ‘produce’ produced an image of this odd fungus, several outcrops of which have been noticed, they looked fresher yesterday. I always assume that anything no known is not safe so will not be trying to eat this or let anything, or anyone eat this ‘crop’.

I love the bird sounds. We have the trees on the mountain, and directly behind my how a old anandanded caravan park with trees and open ground, prime himting area. So as soon as dawn breaks they get Loud. The window is still closed arm, but it won’t be long untill it’s open untill october. I do enjoy the morning call.

Travelling back from North Wales today. Lovely so far and the tide was in coming past Steve’s way. Makes a change! Waves not mud ?

JayCeeDee wrote:

That looks quite familiar. We get that sometimes too. I think it’s a ‘by-product’ of dog poo. No matter how often you clear up, ( my neighbour calls it clearing land mines!! ) there’s sometimes just a small residue left and this is what grows. It gets bagged with the rest of the poo and I pour boiling water on where the stalk or root would be, that clears it up in that spot, but there are bound to be others later on.

While that could be the issue, in this case I suspect the death of an old poplar tree in the neighbour’s garden. This had extensive roots that stretched into our garden and disrupted various things before it died a year or two back.

Will do Dave.

Give me a few minutes, have to find that exact one again….