The Dim Pause

25 April 2020 - Photography - Games

Evening games.

25 April 2020 - Photography - Games

Lockdown just got serious - teaching my wife and daughter to play chess - their first game… ♟

24 April 2020 - FilmTV

Watched: The Wandering Earth, 2019 - ★★½ 🎥

24 April 2020 - Books

Currently reading: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq 📚

24 April 2020 - Links - Cricket

ECB announces further delay to the professional cricket season. No professional cricket will be played in England and Wales until at least 1 July – ECB 🔗 🏏

21 April 2020 - FilmTV

Watched: Things to Come, 2016 - ★★★★ 🎥

20 April 2020 - Links - Food

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for piadina flatbread 🔗 — Excerpt: No 17 on my plan of things to do when things change: take the 7.25am train from Roma Termini to Ravenna, walk out of the station in search of the first place that will serve me a piadina romagnola, then eat the warm fold as I walk towards Piazza Del Popolo. Until then, I will make them at home.

19 April 2020 - Music

🎵 My Top weekly artists: EOB (49), Julian Cope (13), Au Pairs (10), Kavus Torabi (3) & Soul II Soul (1) via tweekly.fm

17 April 2020 - Books

Currently reading: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer 📚

16 April 2020 - Links - Food

Easy as 1,2,3: chefs on the 50 most simple, delicious three-ingredient recipes 🔗 — Excerpt: Most easy recipes are not easy. Achieving simplicity is never actually that simple, but in the kitchen it is usually also contingent on a well-trained hand and a very well-stocked pantry. This makes the genuinely easy three-ingredient recipe a holy grail of sorts.

15 April 2020 - Photography

…and this is the card we got her 😸

15 April 2020 - Photography

My daughter’s 19th lockdown birthday celebration this morning. 🎉

14 April 2020 - Books - Links - Poetry

Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review – fleet-footed and inspiriting 🔗 — Excerpt: In 1798, William Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at the cottage of his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Nether Stowey in Somerset.

12 April 2020 - Photography

Regressing back to medieval times today and drinking mead with hops from Wye Valley Meadery.

12 April 2020 - Links - Music

Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien: ‘Humanity has only really learned from disaster’ 🔗 — Excerpt: Ed O’Brien believed Radiohead’s turbulent years were behind him. It was 2001 and the guitarist and “band mum” had tamed egos, anchored stressful tours and clung tight as his bandmates swerved into electronic music. Now, the five-piece had nothing to prove, and he had slipped underwater.

12 April 2020 - Links - Food

Chard dressed with lemon and Parmesan 🔗 — Excerpt: Method Prep time: 15 min Cooking time: 10 min The leaves and stalks generally need to be cooked separately, so to prepare, wash the chard thoroughly and strip the leaves away from the stalks. Slice the stalks into ½ cm long pieces.

12 April 2020 - Music

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Bob Dylan (22), Kavus Torabi (20), Laura Marling (13), Julian Cope (11) & Lang Lang (11) via tweekly.fm

10 April 2020 - Photography

Copycats 🐈