Wild flowers

[alanw]

I wonder if it had the same effect when used as ersatz coffee? I vaguely recall seeing it in the shop attached to my uncle's bakery in King's Lynn when I was quite young (late 1950's) sold under a brand called Camp.

At my boarding school around 1970 it was served in the evenings. I have no idea why.

It seems an updated version is still sold.

With a more politically correct label these days.

 

[Lankyman]

My grandma used to drink this with a pinch of salt. She said it gave it a rounder taste.

I used to work for Booths (a pricier supermarket based in NW England mostly) and we stocked it. I suppose it's one of those products that provokes a misty-eyed feeling of nostalgia, like Vesta currys and Cresta ('it's frothy man!')? I don't think I ever tried Camp coffee even though I'm now old enough to qualify.

 

[Lankyman]

Fungi on the hill today (above Hawes)

Fungi in Shawgill Wood (above Hardraw Force).

If you're in the area I'd recommend it (and it's free, unlike the Force nearby).
Moss on a wall

 

[bagpuss]

Fungi on the hill today (above Hawes)
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Fungi in Shawgill Wood (above Hardraw Force).
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If you're in the area I'd recommend it (and it's free, unlike the Force nearby).
Moss on a wall
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First ones look like waxcaps, but hard to tell as not close enough. 2nd ones Sulpher Tufts.

Lots of what I think are Lurid Boletes on Exmoor today, can't be 100% sure as there's various other similar ones in the same family. Also found a Penny Bun which went in our tea

 

[tobyk]

First ones look like waxcaps, but hard to tell as not close enough. 2nd ones Sulpher Tufts.

Lots of what I think are Lurid Boletes on Exmoor today, can't be 100% sure as there's various other similar ones in the same family. Also found a Penny Bun which went in our tea

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Might be a Scarletina Bolete as looks as though it has fine dots on the stem. Lurid bolete has reticulation (Like a penny bun) but on a red background. I’ve seen quite a few Scarletinas here in Yorkshire recently.

 

[tobyk]

Plenty of Blushers out around here too. Not sure what the blue ones are though.

 

[Lankyman]

Also found a Penny Bun which went in our tea

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It does look remarkably like a slightly knocked about hot cross bun!

 

[pwhole]

If salt's needed to improve coffee, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

 

[Cantclimbtom]

I remember a spoon of Camp being stirred into a glass of milk as a kind of coffee milkshake (which was OK) and also as a cooking ingredient e.g. coffee and walnut cake. It kind of became mostly redundant as a product though after the US army commissioned Nestlé in WW2 to freeze dry coffee to create instant coffee for their officers' rations.

Haven't seen Camp for years though. Better stop this digression though before the Mods punish us by banishing this to a separate thread

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Camp Coffee thread? I'm in...

 

[bagpuss]

Might be a Scarletina Bolete as looks as though it has fine dots on the stem. Lurid bolete has reticulation (Like a penny bun) but on a red background. I’ve seen quite a few Scarletinas here in Yorkshire recently.

Ah thanks. Don't have the books on holiday with us so wasn't sure.

A few from the coast path to Baggy Point. Evening Primrose, not a native wildflower unfortunately.

Sea Campion

Autumn Squill, a new one for me.

 

[Lankyman]

Little brown mushrooms high on Buckden Pike today

 

[bagpuss]

Along the coast path to Heddon's Mouth

Mosaic puff ball

Parasol

Earth Ball

Giant Polypore, grounds of the Hunters Inn, run by the previous landlords of the Queen Vic in Priddy

 

[AR]

Little brown mushrooms high on Buckden Pike today
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I wonder what they could be?

 

[Lankyman]

I wonder what they could be?

Don't ask me, I've led a very sheltered life!

 

[bagpuss]

Penny Bun make good food for slugs

Not knocked over by me, another red bolete I can't ID without a book to hand..

 

[Chocolate fireguard]

Shaggy parasols in Holkham House Park, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
The tree is a fine english oak with even bigger sweet chestnuts and holm oaks nearby.

 

[Lankyman]

Puffballs (?) trying hard not to blow away on top of Addlebrough, Wensleydale

Bronze Age burial cairn on the skyline beyond

August 2017: Bronze Age Cairn, Addleborough - Yorkshire Dales National Park

There are the remains of a cairn prominently situated on the north crest of Addleborough, overlooking Wensleydale. A cairn is a mound of rough stones, often built as a memorial […]

www.yorkshiredales.org.uk

 

[Badlad]

Lots of these jasper's in the Dunden valley

 

[kay]

Fungi on the hill today (above Hawes)
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Fungi in Shawgill Wood (above Hardraw Force).
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If you're in the area I'd recommend it (and it's free, unlike the Force nearby).
Moss on a wall
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I think you've got at least 4 species of moss there.