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Yesterdays was a Club fungus – Trichoglossum hirsutum. I thought ‘hirsute’ meant hairy – but I didn’t ‘do’ Latin at school, and remember the old rhyme
“Latin is a dead language
As dead as dead can be.
It killed the Ancient Britons
And now it’s killing me!”
PS Maybe a timely reminder………..
http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/FIELDCLUB/calendar.asp?intent=details&eventID=319978