To help your what? I’m intrigued. Some I fried in butter for an omelette, others I had with noodles, and I dried a lot of them. I’ll probably rehydrate those and cook them in cider with sausages

Too late! It collapsed within seconds

I grew it from a kit. It’s a cross between p.eryngii and p.ostreatus, sometimes known as black pearl oyster mushrooms

I’m resisting the temptation to be obscene

One can identify

I cannot deny this as a possibility

Oh! OK. He seems cool

No way. This is wild. Who the hell is John?

Yeah, Tom was in a few Jim Jarmusch flicks. Joe Strummer was in Mystery Train. Before The Clash were formed, Joe lived about five mins from where I am at the mo

Yes, I’ve seen a lot of them and this is one of my faves. I stumbled on it about 30 years ago being played late at night on BBC2. The premise is terrifying. That scene where the little girl is murdered is brutal. Carpenter’s score on this is fantastic too

They are black pearl oysters, which are a cross between p. eryngii (king) and p. ostreatus (grey)

They are growing from a mushroom block made up of water and wood. That’s what it says here, anyway

I saw Tony with, I think, Cab, Tommy G, Mike McGill and Lance on a Bones Brigade tour in Swansea, Wales, in 1989. Blew my tiny mind. I was late home and got a rollicking off my worried parents

Dim probs