Erm, what's the name of that French bread? I baguette.

My Aunt died today.

And I can remember her;

Running across a sunlit field 

With we three children in hilarious pursuit

Laughing at the wind in our faces.

Yesterday i stumbled across this expressive word from Yiddish:

shmegegge

meaning baloney, nonsense, rubbish, as in "Don't give me all that shmegegge".

It's pronounced shmuhGEGee. according to the Oxford English Dictionary. 

Here's the Google ngram. It's quite a recent word it seems, and is a bit less frequent than in the past. But why those high peaks? Was the word in. a film or TV show around those times? I'd love to know.

George Orwell I think it was that said Macbeth is a play about ambition.In this famous speech near the end of the play, Macbeth, facing ruin and defeat, meditates on the ultimate folly of human ambition.

Met a woman claiming to be the Roman goddess of crops. I was like really? You can’t be Ceres.

枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮

on a withered branch
sits a crow
autumn nightfall

I found this attractive fungus growing at the base of a small fig tree I have in a pot. It's about 4 cm in diameter.

What is it?

I've asked on a couple of forums but so far no definite identification. It might be a wax-cap of some kind but that is a far as I've got.

Can anyone help?

From the Uxbridge English dictionary: exuberant - ant who’s given up driving taxis.