Sunday 16th October

This Sunday Chris and I decided to start our morning with a walk around a quiet lane near to Bride village. As I wandered along part of the lane, I spotted a rabbit sat in the middle of the road, just a shame there wasn't a bit more sun

It had been quite a damp morning, leaving lots of dew on gates and leaves etc.

In a shady corner, we found some fungus and a Lords and Ladies plant

As I had a successful walk last weekend, I decided to do the same walk again this week. Sadly, it was not as productive as the previous week - the tides must not have been as big as we'd thought. Still, a nice walk in the sun

I did find a few strange items that made me wonder about their history. The first was a clothes peg

The next was a loosly related item - a scouring sponge!

The final item for today - a lone rubber glove. Was someone doing some washing at the beach somewhere?

As the rewards were few this week, I headed nearer to shore to see if there were any poppies that hadn't been destroyed by the winds

By this time I'd had enough of walking over the stones and seeing nothing so headed onto the shore

Now all that remained was a short walk across the heath to Chris in the car, probably waiting for lunch. I arrived at the car - no Chris! As it was quite a cool wind blowing here - I'd been mostly sheltered from it walking on the beach, I decided to use the car for shelter and as a prop for a couple of pictures.

In the afternoon (once Chris had got out of bed :-) ) we decided to go for a walk into Claughbane Plantation and Elfin Glen, in search of fungus.

Here Chris is taking a picture of the first one we found, nestled in amongst the greenery - my shots weren't worth keeping.

As we walked down Elfin Glen, we saw a fallen log across the stream with (what looked like Dead Men's Fingers growing on it. Not one to stop a bit of water getting in the way of a picture, Chris scrambled into the stream

As we carried on down the Glen, the only fungus we saw was some bracket on a dead tree. We decided to explore the old quarry but, nothing there but brambles. As we carried on along the track, we came across some a group of small fungus in a split tree

A bit further down the track, Chris had wandered ahead, I found a nice pink one almost hidden in the undergrowth

Chris saw one final group but, the ones that I had seen a few weeks ago, including the Amethyst Deceiver, had all died back. Still, we've a bit longer this year to find more.