The Big Mushroom

Australia has a number of "The Big ... " geographical locations like The Big Banana and The Big Rocking Horse and The Toy Shop but nobody has The Big Mushroom.

My friend Leon turned up yesterday with a Big Mushroom, perhaps the biggest I have ever seen, the size of a dinner plate.

He also had a couple of large tubs full of mushrooms he was giving to anyone who wanted them. I love mushrooms so I accepted half a dozen and plan to fry them in some butter and have them on toast. None is as large as the one Leon demonstrates below, but they are nice-sized mushies and will be good to eat.

Leon gave the big mushroom to another friend of ours, which is good, as I probably wouldn't have had the heart to chop it up. Perhaps I may have preserved it somehow.

Leon is a farmer who grows several crops, none of which is mushrooms and he tells me these just "appeared" in the field. It must mean there is good soil and the right conditions for mushrooms to pop up.

Now I'm off to cook my mushies.

Robin