I saw this the other week, in the grounds of the hospital where I was visiting Mum. I've never seen one before. According to the world of Internet, it's a Fly Agaric and it's only mildly poisonous though somewhat hallucinogenic.I didn't eat it. It was too like the toadstool that we used to dance round at Brownies. Though smaller.
Amazing what you see at this time of year when you're not spending all of your life marking.
I almost miss the marking on a few mad occasions, one of which came yesterday when my ex-colleague (who's still working in college) emailed me the first line of a poem that a student wrote for her:
"The qualmless quiver of the waft rewinds around the strain.....".
I wonder what a qualmless quiver is...
ReplyDeleteGerard Manley Hopkins on acid!;)
ReplyDeleteI didn't realise that toadstool was real! Just missing the pixie sitting on it. Don't ever miss the marking....you are FREE!
ReplyDeleteI feel moved to finish that poem.I think it's got something. School of Jabberwocky perhaps.
ReplyDeleteIt makes no sense, but boy does it roll off the tongue for me. Philadelphia, PA USA (well close enough) Amy
ReplyDeleteI was in the Fairy Six, please don't laugh, of the 1st Hohne Brownies (British Army base in Germany), abiding memory of Brown Owl telling us to polish the back of our badges as God could see them! Not a bad suggestion for going through life with a clear conscience!
ReplyDeleteNow THAT sounds like a Times cryptic crossword clue!
ReplyDeleteI'm very happy to contract some of my marking out to you. I have some pieces of creative writing to mark which could outdo the line of that poem.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...hallucinogenic mushroom....an unusual opening line to a poem....how close is the college to the hospital? Nawww...
ReplyDeleteBTW - I do hope your mother is doing better!