The French mushroom front

The cubans remained living in north France countryisde long into the winter after I had retreated to Rome. But I had left them with an adiction to remember me by, and they like good scout boys having helped a granny across the road,sent proud updates.

"Sunci, I cooked the champignons avec du canard, it was delicious! Francisco ate a lot after lunch we decided to check up the mushrooms on the internet. He realized for the first time that some are lethal, inparicular one similar kind to the we just ate. He made himself vomit, had a crazy panic face on,it was really funny. On the other hand I think that the Mushrooms were delicious and I'm still alive."

Mushoom hunting is a French country sport. They race before the sun to get the delicious brown and yellow porcini mushrooms and scatter home as we where waking up. A part od the Calder estate is a forest which begins just behind the house and studios. Some morings we walked trough the dew soaked bushes. Every time we wake up earley we see the french walking home with baskets full of shrooms. However the competetive spirit of this anti-social-foraging sport had got to us. The more country dwellers we met creeping out of our woods having robbed ous of our shrooms the more determined we became to find some and stuff our faces.

My suggestion was that we shoot at poachers in who enter our woods, assuring the Cubans that this is the normal procedure in England. But they are cuban after all and the hardiest fight they will put up is using their hips on a dance floor. We engaged in a night of venedetta grape robbery at our neighbours vineyard instead.

A moring did not go by when we did not see douzens of french creep out of the woods baskets full. This of course meant that there where no big fat porcini left by the time we try hunting for them. Determined not to be beaten we set out pick all the mushrooms we'd spot White. Yelow, red, greenish blue. They where all so pretty... "There are no champignons growing in Cuba" you see and for Marco this growelling for fungus became a right old treasure hunt. Eventualy he invented a way of planting them in the garden too" If one breaks up pieces of edible mushrooms on to the earth, covers them with a metal pot to give them darkness and mosture, within two days fully grown pot shaped mushrooms can be harvested. I on the other hand have started painting everything using colours of the mushroom and my wihte allstar shoes had turned mushroom colured after a mushroom fight. We had become just like the French , quite out of control on the mushroom front.