About

A collection of things that have interested me along the way.

It seems mostly about slime moulds (Myxomycetes) and fungi, particularly at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen and wider Norfolk — the daughter & I are fascinated by them.

Colour descriptions for slime moulds and fungi are taken from the Danish Mycology Society’s colour chart (link opens a PDF in a new tab).

All images are the copyright © of me — Paul McAlenan — and have in recent years been taken with various Pixel phones.

Since December 2023 I have been using an Apexel phone clip with an LED fill light and 100mm macro lens attachment for macro photography. Late 2025, I started using the Apexel VideoRig 2 with my Pixel 6 phone together with the the macro lens and the Apexel LensLight.

The header cartoon on the Home page is by Roger Whitfield.

(if you follow the link to Roger's website you'll likely get a "site not secure" warning – I've mentioned this to him several times!)

The font is Lexend and is self-hosted.

The website is powered by a server-side PHP blogging system I built myself, with content stored in flat YAML files.