Sunday, 16 January 2011

Dizzying heights

And again. Up the same tree. Thrashing around like a stuck pig.
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Oak reduction away from house

Here's expert local climber James Bradford, 2000ft up a giant Oak tree in Claygate.
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Sunday, 9 January 2011

Surrey woodcarver Roger Day


Beautiful sculptures crafted in wood from an expert Surrey craftsman.


Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Saturday, 23 October 2010

Typhula erythropus... perhaps


I found this growing on a damp old beech log in a logpile. Looked quite pretty, so I thought I'd take a photo or two so I could find out what it is.

Rogers mushroom guide seems to think it is Typhula erythropus, common throughout autumn in deciduous woodland in both Europe and America.

It's also known as the Redleg Club, and it's not edible. There seems to be nothing more to say about it, the internet doesn't say a great deal. Needless to say, it'll be burning on someone's fire somewhere in the coming weeks.