Adventures in the Czech Republic

When I arrived back at the house a few days ago, I found my neighbour's lawn covered with shaggy ink cap mushrooms and others. I ...

I just had to share with you my desk calendar for 2015 . It was half price in an art and stationary shop in Cesky Krumlov. At less than ...

Here I am in my Czech home trying to write a novel and procrastinating, so I'm writing a blog post instead. The weather outside is gr...

And so at last we come to the end of the mushroom season. The last mushrooms are to my mind some of nature's best - wood blewits with t...

For the first week of my return to the Czech Republic it hardly stopped raining (or it felt like it anyway). Now at last the sun is shining...

I must be due another post about picking mushrooms – why it is the height of the season! Recently I have been pondering what skills/abilitie...

When I last went mushrooming with one of my Czech friends, she was much taken by my home-made thumbstick. To any of reader that does not...

I am in England. And it is wonderful here, but I feel the Czech Republic beginning to creep into my thoughts. Perhaps it is because I know I...

In my last post I talked about the Czechs as a nation of hunters and in previous posts I have talked about the Czech obsession with gatherin...

I finally decided to have a housewarming party. It's two years since we bought the house. I know, but it has hardly been in a fit state ...