Top 10 books about Europe — link 🔗

Wildcat and the Egghead: The life of Donald Rooum — link 🔗

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for potato, onion and tomato gratin — link 🔗

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for Bolognese rice cake — link 🔗

Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for butternut squash — link 🔗

First time trying a selection of vegan cheeses.

Currently reading: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey by Richard Ayoade 📚

Ne Travaillez Jamais! ca. 1965-66 - Situationniste Blog 🔗

Chips, cheese and gravy - Puckin’ Poutine.

Close up of the grass snake.

Found a few surprises whilst moving my winter log pile this morning - at least three toads and a small grass snake. All safely relocated.

Sea bream and sea bass with the broccoli, of course!

Barbecuing some broccoli - results as yet uncertain …

Currently reading: The Second Sleep by Robert Harris 📚

Gorgeous day for Glamorgan’s final home Specsavers County Championship match of the season against Leicestershire at Sophia Gardens. 🏏

Found a Mason’s Arms in Bristol so felt obliged to visit. Good beer - Hoptimistic Monk - and a great beer garden. 🍺

Spiced Apple Chutney production

Tenby Harbour

Tenby Harbour Brewery Trawlers’ Dread black IPA 🍺

Currently reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚

Bank Holiday Monday cricket - Glamorgan v Sussex Sharks in Vitality Blast T20 match, Will Beer bowling to Sean Marsh 🏏

A secondhand book is a glimpse into the lives of other readers 📚🔗

Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on this day in 1792 - BBC In Our Time - The Later Romantics

At Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Suffolk for the weekend - Gomez on the BBC Sounds stage 🎵

England win the ICC Cricket World Cup final. Unbelievable and dramatic game of cricket - I’ve been glued to it all day. So pleased that England won, but it was such a close, hard fought game that neither side really deserved to lose. A great end to the tournament. 🏏