Conjoined mushroom

This is just getting boring. Blue skies, sub-zero temperature, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Mirinda’s first post-Christmas day back to work. It was with heavy feet we strolled up to the station this morning, careful not to slip on the frosty path. Actually, it wasn’t very slippery. There was a frost last night but no liquid and the temperature was still below zero so it was crunchy. So we crunched up.

My voice has not improved very much though I’m feeling otherwise fine. Mirinda, on the other hand, is still very weak from her ordeal and left work early to an early retirement at the flat.

Back here in Farnham, I took the poodles for a lovely walk. Now that everyone’s returned to work or school or to where ever they came from, the park is once more the domain of the regular walkers and joggers. The friendly people who smile and say hello. Well, most of them. There’s also the grumpy old lady with the cocker but I just her. So it was a lovely, uneventful stroll across the frosted grass, which the poodles loved with their usual reckless abandon.

In the afternoon, I finally managed to burn some cardboard (the pile was gradually taking over the dining room). I have to burn our cardboard, by the way, because our council doesn’t recycle it. Paper, cans, glass, plastic milk cartons are all fine but cardboard? No way. So I burn it then scatter the ashes on the compost heap. My own recycling. Of course, I release a bit of carbon into the air while doing it…but what can you do? It’s actually quite a good additive to the compost. I’ve asked Mirinda to do the same with me.

I was also tied to my desk for a good amount of the day working on my Philosophy of Information essay. And I shall continue to be for the rest of the week, I expect. Either that or the one about Domain Analysis.

So a nice quiet day which, given I have little voice at the moment, was perfect.

Oh, I almost forgot the title of this post. Last night we had lamb chops and I made a mushroom sauce to go with the mash, peas and carrots. Imagine my horror when I found this in the bag!

A conjoined mushroom