To celebrate the Millennium Year, the Leicester Fungus Study Group embarked on a project to record the fungi along a transect in part of Martinshaw Wood. Their dedicated work was completed, but the records lay in a box at Leicestershire Museum Service’s Stores and was in danger of being forgotten. During the first lockdown in 2020, I wrote the project up and a picture of the fungal activity in the wood throughout the year became clear. I also discovered a story that was not just about the fungi in the woods, but also about the people involved in the project.