Fun with fungi

Another busy weekend and I feel so much better for it.

Next month is my mum's 70th birthday and she's having a party so I spent Saturday morning and early afternoon preparing the invitations.  Using a photo I took of her, smudging out the background, printing it on card with the proper words in the proper place on the inside and then printing fourteen of them (that's when I ran out of card).  It took me a good six hours - but she's worth it.  Sometime during this coming week I have to print another thirty or so!

Then Saturday evening was bowling evening for my family.  The eldest was about 70, the youngest 16 and all ages in between.  I had to find a bowling ball which was both not too heavy for me and had a big enough thumb hole so that my nail didn't get ripped off.  And then when I found one, everyone wanted to use it!  I lost spectacularly (a speciality of mine) and then we all went back to A's for fish and chips.  Fan-tas-tic.

Now, on Saturday night we put the clocks back by one hour which meant an extra hour in bed for everyone.  Everyone, that is, except me.  For I was up and about, bright and early on Sunday morning as I'd arranged to go to Blean Woods to photograph fungi.  I know! me, in a wood, on the damp floor, in winter, taking photos of fungi - I think I have finally flipped.

However, I wasn't alone.  I went as part of a group from several local photography societies so there was lots of hands-on advice, lots of being able to play around with equipment (get your minds out of the gutter), fiddling with F-stops and long exposures.  Did I get any decent photos?  I don't think so, BUT I learned a lot.

Not least of all, that getting up and down off damp leaf mould makes me ache in places I didn't know existed!