Is it May already ?

I can’t believe my last post was in February, so much has happened and time just seems to fly by. I drove back from my Christchurch excursion and the day after I got back I ended up in ED ( emergency department for the US guys) with a partial bowel blockage, well that was just the beginning of ED visits which have culminated in MRI scans and cat scans, ultrasounds and more. Bottom line they found a congenital condition and a mass – now trying to coordinate surgeons and find a way to get a gynaecologist and a general surgeon to operate at the same time. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. I head off tomorrow to Hamilton (about an hour and half from here) to hopefully take the next step.

In the mean time it’s finally the start of fungi season, way later than usual this year with a super dry summer, we finally got some big rain events and suddenly the fungi are coming up. Fungi hunting gets me out in absolutely breathtaking native forest and although the walks are only 3 -4 kilometres I take about 3 hours to do it as I spend most of my time lying on the ground. The places I go are off the grid with no cell service and often crazy pothole filled mud tracks to get in so I always got with fellow fungal fanatics. When you are out fungalling whole world is focussed on the 2mm tiny mushroom on the far side of a rotting log covered in spiderwebs and teetering on the edge of a ravine. I am so thankful to have the space away from all the world’s craziness.