Miniature azaleas

Pride of place on the West Park roundabout on Horton Lane have been the miniature azaleas (or were they rhododendrons?). They were crimson in colour, were last noticed on 2nd May and I am sure I have taken their picture before now - but cannot find any trace. They will have to wait for another year now as they have ceded their place to clumps of small mushrooms, or perhaps fungi, which have sprung up all over. Perhaps this is what happens to damp wood chippings.

A little bit further round the Clockwise circuit, I fell in a little way behind what I took to be another sort of parasite, a rather shabbily dressed young man, but not so poor as not to be able to afford headphones, and presumably some gadget to pipe noise into them. First slings his empty can of Red Bull into the hedge and then he proceeds to spit to his right at about 30 second intervals. Not clear why he was spitting as the spittle did not appear to be the grim yellow & green stuff from the days of my youth when plenty of older men had dodgy lungs for one reason or another. But then, to my surprise, he carefully put what might have been a screwed up receipt from a shop into a litter bin as he turned off Horton Lane into the Tesco's there. Perhaps he felt me giving him the evil eye from behind, having resisted the temptation to take & post his picture.

PS: still worrying away at the missing prior posts and this morning (Thursday 29th) I turn up one about autumn rather than spring fungi on this same roundabout. Red rather than yellow, so presumably different. See 9th November last.