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The vast majority of wild fungi are not worthwhile eating, far too tough or far too fragile and shrinking to almost nothing, or simply not tasting good. A proportion can provoke various gastric upsets which can cause short term discomfort on occasion, while others have hallucinogenic effects...

I've never had any interest in trying hallucinogenic mushrooms and never will, just as I've never tried any illicit drug and never will. In the same vein I don't drink alcohol. My mind is fine and working extremely well as it is, so I see no point in messing with it. .

I've eaten wild mushrooms for much of my life and I still remember the delicious taste of the first one when I was five years old. But I don't know what it was since my Italian grandmother, who like so many rural continentals, had a wealth of knowledge of what plants and fungi could be eaten...

Indeed. The question is, will we be able to correct it by making much more for ourselves, or will our economy be so far gone that we'll have to learn how to go without in a simpler life. There's a suspicion our politicians approve of the latter, if their policy of getting everyone out of cars...

Almost everything "made" in the West is heavily dependant on Far Eastern components within their assemblies, it's not just "chips". Our Western manufacturers buy from there simply because their parts are much cheaper than we can make them, and this is particularly true of electrical...

We have legions of such complaining users Bob, mainly about the Impulse series motors that Kalkhoff used but also the other brands the German parent company, Derby Cycles gmbh, sold with those motors. And the one time agent for Kalkhoff here in the UK also came in for a bashing. Kalkhoff of...

Welcome back Steve. :) .

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Likelyhood is a factor in identification as well. In our South-eastern English wood CoW is very common and frequent, but Meripilus giganteous rare and only in two repeat locations from where it hasn't spread in the last couple of decades. I've conducted many fungi walks here, but I wouldn't...

Agreed, as I remarked in my later post, identity for edibility should never be from a photogroph. There are too many similarities, especially when the CoW is past its best as that one would have been if CoW. .

Likely to be Red Cracking Bolete, Xerocomellus chrysenteron. Edible if it is that, but edibility should never be decided from a photograph. Not worthwhile anyway since it can cook rather soggy like many polypores. .

They are, but of course being edge lit the illumination isn't all that it could be. .

Chicken of the Woods, Laetiporus sulphureus. Edible and said to taste like chicken, but I dont eat bracket varieties since i find them too rubbery. For that reason I don't eat the shop Oyster Mushrooms, grey top Pleurotus ostreatus and white top Pleurotus pulmonarius. .

All motor vehicles used at nights have to have rear number plate illumination by law. .

And feel like Eternalia, just like Thatcher's time. .

I'm in London and agree with you, but much of my cycling has been in the country lanes of Surrey and Kent which are often as dangerous as yours. The claim we often see that if pedelecs had a 20 mph assist limit they could keep up with the traffic is a myth, because almost all drivers interpret...

The great majority of the world disagrees, 25 kph (15.5mph) being the only widespread standard for pedelec assist speed limit. Again this doesn't fit the facts. The highest density of pedelecs is by far in countries where cyclists often travel at at far below 25 kph, The mistake you are...

You may have suitable threads there, I couldn't see threads in the photo and the flange looked a bit too narrow. Freewheel threads are fine, so closely spaced at 1mm apart. At the size you indicate it would be metric BMX thread which is 30 mm diameter. I believe that means only single...

Agreed, but it can be achieved with care and truly transparent honesty. Even George Osborne managed almost a decade of austerity by bluntly and openly stating the mess we were in. The public aren't totally dumb, they know we are broke and deep in unsustainable debt, but they dont like to...

Can they form a viable government? . . . Yes They will need to borrow large amounts for a very long time to make ends meet. . . . Not necessarily, redistribution of what we have via a much fairer taxation and benefits regime is also genuine socialism. Indeed it can be argued that borrowing...