Woman finds 11lb mushroom – which feeds family for a week
A woman found a huge 11lb mushroom while out walking – and took it home to eat for a week.
Alissimon Minnitt, 27, was with her dad near North Marston, Bucks., when they spotted a large white object across a field.
Assuming someone had fly-tipped, Alissimon initially thought it was a fridge or plastic waste.
But, after touching it to confirm, she realised it was in fact a large puffball mushroom – which weighed a whopping 11 pounds.
Alissimon carried it to her parent’s home where she was staying for the week – and the mushroom fed her and her parents for the remainder of her stay.
Alissimon, a musician based in Chesham, Bucks., said: “I was so shocked when I realised it was a mushroom.
“It honestly was about twice the size of my head.
“It was a freaky coincidence as well because my dad and I were just talking about another mushroom we’d found in the area seven years ago while on our walk.
“And then there was just another massive one right there!”
The family made four different dishes with the mushroom, including a mushroom-base pizza and a mushroom ‘roast’, which Alissimon froze and took home with her.
Alissimon said: “I was surprised by how much we were able to get out of it. The mushroom roast my mum made was so good so I took some of it home frozen.
“It’s continued to keep me fed for a further month, though I’ll only have it a couple times a week.”
TfL jet-washed Banksy artwork off bridge over fears it would attract graffiti
A valuable Banksy mural has been deliberately destroyed by transport workers amid concerns it would ‘attract more graffiti’, it emerged today (tues).
The mural – featuring three, black monkeys swinging along an imaginary rope – was stencil sprayed on a span of concrete railway bridge in London.
However today it emerged that railway workers had deliberately removed the artwork using a high pressure washer.
The removal sparked horror among Bansky lovers who could not believe that the artwork which first appeared in August had been destroyed.
Horrified onlookers in Tower Hamlets, east London, spotted workers removing it from the bridge last week.
The bridge, which carries the London Overground’s Windrush Line between Shoreditch High Street and Whitechapel, is located on Brick Lane.
Pictures from the scene afterwards show some graffiti remains – but the Bristol artist’s piece is gone.
Now, after an investigation by online publication The Tab, Transport for London has admitted it is behind the removal of the artwork.
A Transport for London spokesperson said: “There are rules in place around graffiti or unauthorised art on the TfL network and there are good reasons why these must be followed.
“Sometimes graffiti or unauthorised art can attract more graffiti, which encourages trespassing and anti-social activity that poses a danger to the operational railway and customers, so this piece had to be removed.”
A protective cover had previously been placed over the monkeys, which some thought meant the piece would be staying in place.
The three monkeys were part of a series of Banksy artworks painted across the country’s capital this summer.
Other works included a painting of a gorilla letting out animals near London Zoo, and a goat on the side of a building in Richmond, south west London.
Some thought the three monkeys might have been a reference to the Japanese proverb ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.’
On social media, users expressed their disappointment.
One user on Instagram said: “It doesn’t make any sense what they did, just look how people love it, many tourists coming to Brick Lane must be very disappointed now!”
Another commented: “A tragic aspect of British life – rules over joy and entertainment. Very puritanical move! “
