Fungi and a Sofa

On a pretty wet weekend we brought a new sofa to the Wood and were amazed that Livy had constructed the first one alone. The sitting room still doesn't feel full and the sofas are not quite what Dornford Yates described, but it is beginning to look a little like the temple of ease in The House That Berry Built.

Interiors

We walked around the wood in the rain with our Dutch friends and were enchanted to find more chanterelles, a fair number of boletus and a very few amethyst mushrooms, which look poisonous but mostly aren't.

Boletus

Some deer sauntered through in the evening, staring at the house to remind us that we are interlopers: a fawn, a hind and a stag. We reminded them not to eat the oaks.