WHAT Nicki Stamp (Letters, March 9, What are these blobs?’) saw on the grass was a type of jelly fungus.

Jelly fungi as a group are very variable in colour and shape and not all of them are jelly-like in consistency. Nor are they rare.

I saw some exactly like Nicki’s in a field in the Rusland valley only the other day. I, too, was mystified until my more knowledgeable wife put me straight.

If Nicki Googles ‘jelly fungus’, all will be explained.

The moral of this story? You don’t have to get yourself to Amazonia in order to find unfamiliar bits of nature. You only have to keep your eyes open while patrolling your home range.

Geoff Brambles

Kendal