Daydream thread continues.....

alfie_1

i didnt know you COULD eat puffballs !! im sure i have em here...do you have a correct picture please...

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

i didnt know you COULD eat puffballs !! im sure i have em here...do you have a correct picture please...

About the size of a football, but might not be quite as perfect as this one, due to animals nibbling bits, I think.

We ate most of one in 2010, but it beat us in the end!

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

About the size of a football, but might not be quite as perfect as this one, due to animals nibbling bits, I think.

We ate most of one in 2010, but it beat us in the end!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: BIG CHOOK ! :rotfl::rotfl:

I thought puffballs were brownish ... i will from now on look for "footballs" on my travels.. do they like particular places to hang out ?..........
i cant believe its midnight and im talking balls.....;)

Davesnave

They don't seem particular about location. One was in an area I'd cleared with glyphosate, while others have been in grass, including very long grass.

They go brown eventually, by which time they're no good to eat.

The ball gradually dries out and emits tens of thousands of spores when kicked or bumped. Later still, it becomes detached from the soil and rolls about, possibly for more than a year. One of ours has travelled the whole length of a field.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Alfie you can talk about balls anytime:D

I am sure Huw FW cooked one of them puff ball mushrooms, think he dug the middle of it out and used it like a bowl? cant remember what it put in it, some sort of soup melted cheese thing?

LIR... hope everything goes ok with the hospital... and dont let things get on top of you ( why did i my thought go back to alfie's comment:cool:) I know that is easier said than done..... I know about stress, so please... look after yourself....

I am sooooooooo glad i work all day, as i could not cope with the noise etc of the machinery that is preparing for the supermarket.... its bad enough in the morning, and for a few hours when we come home from work...and to think we arnt even getting a bloody £1 gift card off them for all the disruption:mad:

right my fruit bread toast has just popped up, so better go and put lashings of butter on them:D

lostinrates

Puff balls.....best sliced then breadcrumb coated then fried and served with lemon. A lot of.

Itismehonest

Right. :mad:

That's it. I've had enough of this ruddy mist.

I have every sympathy with Cyd but I do not live in Scotland & I do not want to wake up once every 100 years to find Gene Kelly poking around in my outhouses.

Lotus-eater

That reminds me, I saw a couple of puff balls on my way out this morning.

Davesnave

Mist? We can see both moors and the sun is out.:D

Wouldn't say it's tropical here, though. As choille would say, B'ple was a bit dreich, earlier on.

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

Mist? We can see both moors and the sun is out.:D

Wouldn't say it's tropical here, though. As choille would say, B'ple was a bit dreich, earlier on.

The mist has rolled out again for the moment. The tide has probably changed.
Currently it's grey interwoven with darker grey coming up from the SW & with the sun desperately trying to come through horizontally as it starts to go down behind the cliffs.

Makes little difference, though, everywhere remains too wet to do anything.

Remarkably few people walking the coast path - unsurprisingly.
I bet the local tourism businesses are even more peed off than we are.
Were they all in Barney?

I will report any puffball sightings if, as & when