1. Today, after a few damp days, the common is alive with mushrooms and what I learnt on the fungal foray last week has opened that kingdom up like a pop-up book. Troops of delicate Mycena gleam in the dark beneath bramble thickets, sulphur tuft crowds on rotting stumps, and hoards of others that I don't recognise (yet).
2. We quickly catch up about his progress and it feels so good to talk with someone who sees your child as you see them, and who looks right through the stories we have had to set up like fences.
3. A single picture tells us she has stopped off for a half-term milkshake.
