Good morning everyone and welcome to another edition of What Are You Reading Right Now?, where the hoddle asks the Carty Free Community what it’s currently reading.
I think you all know how much I love my nature books - especially those involving mushrooms. I think in the previous edition to this that I started reading Entangled Life, which is more about fungi and fungal networks than it is about mushrooms.
It’s a fascinating book. I most recently learnt about mycoheterotrophs - which includes all 25,000 species of orchid. These mycoheterotrophs obtain their nutrients through some sort of parasitic relationship with fungi than via photosynthesis. The book points out, though, that the orchid eventually pays this back. Who knows what the actual timeline of this is, though.
And that leads me to wonder what my orchid Planty does. It’s in a new environment. Instead of facing east, it is now facing west. It’s still holding up strong, but I never stop worrying about it. And now I wonder how else I should place it in my new apartment.
That’s unnecessary. What is necessary is to point out that I’m nearly done with my fungi book - I highly recommend it. A trusty hoddler recommended and orchid book to pick up soon after this. I’ll get to that eventually, but I’ve got two other ones that are on my radar I want to get to first. What those are, though, I’ll save for another day.
Fitzie’s track of the day: Gay Bar, by Electric Six
And now for your links:
JAck P-B ($$): “Tottenham Supporters’ Trust survey shows satisfaction with ownership at ‘all-time low’”
BBC: “Is Spurs’ Moore the answer to Rangers’ open-play issues?”
TimeOut: “New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show turns NYC street life into flowers”