Pretty confidently identified as a horse mushroom, agaricus arvensis (date 30 Sep for future reference). Worth remembering as this is a tasty mushroom, bearing in mind the aphorism “There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters. But there are no old bold mushroom hunters.”!

Lux Muralis in Durham Cathedral (mid Oct).
Mid Oct: First post-pandemic visit to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s Beer and Music Festival.
A fantastic exhibition at the National Glass Museum, Sunderland (early Nov). Sadly the striking building housing the centre is proving expensive to maintain, and looks likely to close…
River Wear at night (late Nov).
Christmas display in St. Cuthbert’s Chapel at Ushaw (early Dec).
A chilly, but enjoyable weekend on a barge (the “Misty Lady”) in Hebden Bridge in early Dec. (Top left) Gibson Mill (National Trust). (Top right) Power lines near Lower Lee.
Double rainbow over the Tyne, looking towards Tynemouth (end of Dec).

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