David

Small puffball in short grass providing food, perhaps for a squirrel.

Sandstone bridge which carries a lane over the Penk.

The bridge crosses the river just upstream from Penkridge. It was built in the eighteenth century, and is Grade II listed.

Magpie in one of the trees on Tettenhall Upper Green. It seemed to be under the impression that I wanted to grab whatever it was that it was eating.

More recent buttercap mushrooms, this time growing under trees in Bantock Park.

The name is supposedly because touching the caps gives a similar sensation to butter.

Another stroll by the Chapel Ash roundabout, another fly agaric mushroom had popped up its head in the canes.

It had appeared long enough ago for something to have had a good go at eating it.

The ruins of White Ladies Priory are in Shropshire, down a quiet country lane between Bishops Wood and Cosford.

It’s a National Trust property, linked to Boscobel House at the Bishops Wood end of the lane. Boscobel was originally a hunting lodge built on the Priory land.

There is free access to the ruins, down an often muddy dirt track off the lane.