Mushroom picking is a fungi old business

I SAW, in the Guardian newspaper, that a German woman, settled in England, had been arrested for picking wild mushrooms.

These were not liberty caps, proscribed under the Misuse of Drugs act because they bring on hallucinations which UK law, for citizens’ sakes, won’t allow.

They were edible forest mushrooms, and the lady was charged with theft from the UK Forestry Commission.