Whereabouts in the UK? if your in the NW, miss K, want to meet up if you have spare time? it'd be an honour:)
As for me, got a mushroom hunt in a certain forest planned, all or mostly pine woods, plus another place my old man goes fishing and when he last went he gave me the heads up that there were LOADS of Boletus species fruiting (and whilst only a very few are really toxic, and those both easy to tell that they are, and are incredibly rare for the most part, worthy of conservation efforts, like the devil's bolete, the majority are edible and of the edible ones the majority of those I've had have been delicious.)
The pine forest I'm holding out more hope for though, since the other year I found LOADS of Lactarius deliciosus, the saffron milk-cap, so named because they are bright orange, pitted with deeper orange craters in the stem, that often go slightly green with age, and bleed an orangy milk, and they are, as the binomial suggests, delicious, having been eagerly sought out for so long that they were sold, afaik at high prices, at roman markets. Had plenty last year for the first time, and now I know where to find them, I'll be back this year with my collecting baskets, bags and whatever else I can muster to keep them in, dry some, eat lots, freeze a few for later. Got pounds of them last year and damn, they really were good eating.
Found a puffball spot too, picked a few, but since I couldn't bring myself to eat anything, I let them turn, and dry out, so I can collect the spores and culture some puffballs. Wasn't hungry at the time, after my albanian friend, who I'd come to love, and so had she me, took her own life. Still haven't been eating much really, so I'm going to try and tempt myself with the best food on offer. And free, wild food all the better since the money I don't spend on buying food I can spend on stuff for the lab.
