Ēriks and Aina on mushroom picking

Ēriks and Aina talk about their experience of mushroom picking in the United Kingdom:

They wanted to arrest me and Aina. We went to the forest to pick mushrooms, and they wanted to arrest us. Apparently, we were trying to poison someone! The police came. The English people who walk there saw us picking and reported it to the police, so the police showed up.

When we bought that other house — the bungalow — it was near the forest. During the day, my friend’s dog and I would go for walks after work and pick mushrooms. Sometimes Ērik and the children came along too. And then — ‘What are you doing? Picking mushrooms? They’re poisonous!’
I said, ‘If they were poisoned, I’d have been dead long ago!’

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