The crack in December 1990 was mighty it seemed, especially in contrast to the pandemic time we live in now.
Parties and socializing abounded, with picker parties , pre-Christmas functions, mushroom gatherings and fungal forays, formal informal meetings (this one between Northern Ireland Mushroom Committee members, MGA folk and some southern representatives after the conference in Malahide).
There was eight feet of snow early in the month hampering transport of fresh produce across the water.
And Stalker was connecting the UK PM of the day, John Major, to the mushroom industry, via his first official function outside of London to a mushroom grading and packaging centre in Peterborough, part of his constituency.
