The weather we’ve had this autumn means that mushrooms have mushroomed — and award-winning Nature writer John Lewis-Stempel is delighted.
Foreigners have always been rude about our weather. Gauis Tacitus (AD56–120) set the pattern, describing the climate of these isles as ‘pretty foul, with frequent rain and fog’. Wet and warm, in other words, just like our ale. ‘Nothing but mist,’ moaned Marx.
Are we not having the last laugh, however? The British…
