This little beauty has appeared in a shady corner of the garden. Possibly something to do with it being an area favoured by the pup for his early morning constitutional. I was going to pull it up but …

“Dad don’t kill it. It’s got as much right to be here as us”

Already getting the all so familiar sinking feeling of an argument slipping through my grasp, I tried one feeble counter thrust. An incoherent ramble about weeds.

“What’s a weed?”

That vail of defeat rapidly falling towards me … one last throw of the dice … it’s the wrong type of plant in the wrong place (all those years in the greenhouse with my gardening dad and that’s the best I can dig up!!!!)

“Well strictly speaking that’s not a plant , it’s in the separate fungi classification. Also who defines what the wrong type of plant is. Didn’t you tell me that being different is one of life’s blessings”

Total defeat. The weed, sorry no – plant, sorry no – fungi STAYS. Now I have to build him his own little fence to keep the pup away. Deep joy.

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      1. Ha.. I once had one that kept hopping up to the second floor of my house (outside entry via stairs) and into the guest bathroom toilet. It thought it was it’s own personal swimming pool and suite! It would live on the ceramic toilet bowl rim under the seat and line up all his dead flies there as though it was his pantry, swim in the water. I removed it once and it came back! It was tiny.. a toad or frog. Hilarious. No one used that room for months so it was a sanctuary for it.

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