Also featuring on the newsletter from Mushroom business this month was a "who's who" of who was due to be at the 17th ISMS Congress in Cape Town from the 20-24 May.
Stalker was intrigued to know of any Irish delegates making the long trek to South Africa, and of course there were quite a few.
Helen Grogan from Teagasc, Jason Barry from University College Dublin and John Turner from Kildorough Mushrooms were on the list from Ireland.
Also Leixuri Aguirre,from the Dublin Institute of Technology and Kate Ahern of Sylvan Ireland, along with Mark Walsh, MD at Custom Compost / Walsh Mushrooms.
And Stalker noted that Brendan McKenna from JFM was on the list too - trying to foil Stalker by lurking under the UK regional assignation!
As too were Juluri Rao, from the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and Skekhar Sharma, from the Agri-Food Biosciences Institute & The Queen's University . There were a few other familiar names from the UK and beyond.
Looking at the delegate country list the event is as multinational as it is possible to get; it's good to know that the Irish are represented at such events.
Unfortunately South Africa hit the news headlines just as the delegates were arriving for the event.
Anti-foreigner violence in Johannesburg was the eye-catching news - with at least 24 dead; exactly the opposite images of the country that the organisers would have wished for.
Hopefully next month Stalker will have some news to report from the event itself and perhaps the odd photograph or two as well.
As Jeremy Beadle might have put it -"Watch out Stalker's about."
