Good Day For Mushrooms

I’ve always had a soft spot for mushrooms ever since the sixties when a Russian spy, captured retrieving top secret information from a tree stump in somewhere like Ashdown Forest, insisted he was only looking for fungi. “I’m only picking mushrooms” became a school catch phrase. Rather like the slogan on a sheer nylon tights offer with Paxo stuffing: “Recommended by Anita Harris.” But I digress...

There’s a sense that both the Doctor and Chris are getting out of their depth. Wouldn’t it just be better to get the TARDIS back and go? But curiosity, always the Doctor’s undoing, and a man in a stove get the better of them. They’re starting to get noticed.

The Doctor’s catapult, emblem of a rascally Dennis the Menace-style childhood. But I don’t remember knowing anyone who actually had one.