Readers may be aware that there is a comet in the sky these mild-ish winter nights.
In former times comets were held as harbingers of food or the death of kings. But there is no record of the significance of a green comet!
Does the portent relate to Ireland? Or perhaps to matters of the environment.
No matter comet Lulin is the brightest comet for some time and it has a distinctly green glow - this is ascribed to it a diatomic carbon and cyanogen erupting from its icy nucleus as it warmed for perhaps the first time since it formed more than 4billion years ago.
What has this got to do with mushrooms one may ask?
Well absolutely nothing, unless cyanogen or diatomic carbon are used in mushroom production; but it is something of interest in the night sky and absolutely free to view.
Look east south east from Feb. 21 to March 3rd - the green thing is Lulin. Perhaps it could be lucky for the Irish?
