The first thing Google throws up in a search for Renault Megane is headed 'Megane - Perfect for everyday life'. Perhaps Harry saw it...

On another subject, is a small glass of my wife's sloe gin drunk late at night likely to have been the cause of not being able to sleep well for the first few hours of the night? Is a confirmatory test needed tonight? Is anyone around here an expert on such matters?

Steve

Mixed experiences with banks when I've been sorting out the estates of deceased relatives. Everything from helpful and sympathetic to difficult and uninterested - and the one that managed to tear a death certificate in half went straight into my Very Black Book . Building Societies seem to be better at this than banks. But like RobL, I found a lot depended on the person I talked to.

Steve

Beauty is in the eye of the bag-holder...

Steve

+1 for the Q series, particularly Q-S1.

With any compact (including Q series) it's worth thinking about whether you want/need a viewfinder.

Family experience of the reliability of Panasonic TZ long zoom compacts has not been good (which is a pity because they were good in other respects). The manager of my local camera shop says that's typical of long zoom, do everything compacts that are designed and built to a price point. And just to be clear that it's long zoom, do everything that's the problem not the brand, the only Pentax that's failed catastrophically in my family was a film-era long zoom, do everything compact. You get what you pay for.

Steve

Subtle, evocative, showing all the marks that come with age... A great picture.

Steve

They're still sprouting so I'm still photographing. Going for their soft (or even furry :shock side today. Just out of curiosity, used the F f1.7 + 38mm tube with the K3. Scarily narrow depth of field and difficult to get a good angle on anything because of the increasingly dense forest of writhing fungus. But it's fun trying!

They're increasingly looking like those wiggly things that hang around the smoking underwater vents along the mid-Atlantic ridge...

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Steve

That head-on shot - lovely! The last thing a little bug sees before its short life comes to an end. And a classic head and shoulders portrait, albeit not the usual classic subject .

Steve

Don't forget to post some pictures.

Steve

Have you bought a National Lottery ticket? You might not need to work...

Steve

Each of the larger 'trumpets' is about an inch long, so plenty more growing to do before harvest time.

Sorry about not explaining the orifices. My excuse is that I'd just sent an e-mail saying 'one from every orifice' to my daughter who had given me the kit, she's a doctor so knows all about orifices and what can come out of them! The kit consists of a cubic cardboard box with three holes, each about an inch diameter (you can just about see them in nos. 2 and 3). Inside the box is a black plastic bag with slits under each of the holes. Inside the bag is a straw-like compost that has been impregnated with fungal spores. The only way out for the fungi is through the holes. You just spray the holes and wait, ensuring that the box gets a steady temperature about 18-20 degrees (C not F!) and isn't in bright light. Mine is in a big bucket inside a black bin liner in a corner of the living room - Mrs. Lubbyman hasn't complained yet!

I was told that I'm due to get another box with a different type of mushroom when this lot have been eaten.

Steve