Well, that's my diet sorted.

I have mycophobia. I don't like fungi, in the same way some people don't like spiders, or confined spaces. It's not as bad as it used to be, and I can handle packaged button mushrooms or even eat them if they're prepared so that they no longer, well, look like fungi. But toadstools are revolting.

So there I was, wandering through Edinburgh farmers' market this morning. Ostrich burgers, mmm. Organic veg, looks nice. Arran cheese, yum. Shitake mushroom growing kits, AAARGH! TOO LATE TO LOOK AWAY!!!

You see, these kits consist of a 'log' of compressed woodchip which is evidently impregnated with mushroom spores, so a few weeks later it sprouts a crop of little fungi. What was particularly gross was that the 'log' managed to look almost exactly like a large farmhouse loaf, so the end product - of which there were several on display - looked for all the world like a loaf that was covered in fungus.

I'm not hungry now. I'm vaguely wondering if I'm ever going to be hungry again.

Up, up and away!

A (very lucky!) spectator's video of the return to flight of Vulcan XH558. Remember, this was her first trip in 14 years so the crew were taking it gently...

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