A friend and I had a great day yesterday foraging in the Great Park in Surrey - just a day after it was open after foot-and-mouth precautions so still lots of mushrooms in very easy places. Best finds was copious amounts of Fairy Ring Chamignons, although did come across a couple of rather mangy looking Ceps. Anyway it all made a cracking soup.
Just wondering; a) if anyone else is a mushroomer?
If so, can they reccomend a good field guide? We were using the River Cottage one, which was excellent. Particuarly useful was the 'key' system at the front where you went through stages and it gave probable outcomes. Naturally though we need another guide to cross-reference with, and Amazon have dozens of them, so wondering which would be best.... for on the go, rapid identification, so would need some sort of way to jump straight into types rather than thumbing through an A-Z!