How the Indian Premier League clean bowled English T20 cricket ππ
Two hundred million people watched the IPL season opener in Abu Dhabi … more than the Super Bowl audience and not too far off the Champions League final.
Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times π
Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music β and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world
Baking wonβt get me through a Covid winter but a bossy, breathless Melvyn Bragg just might π
In Our Time, I often think, is like going to an amazing free university at the top of Enid Blytonβs Magic Faraway Tree
For my second night of cooking Meera Sodha recipes Iβve gone for vegan chilli cornbread with broccoli. And baked black-eyed beans.
Watched: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, 1993 - β β β β π₯
Cooking Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Shaoxing and soy braised tofu with pak choi. And sticky jasmine rice.
Watched: The Social Dilemma, 2020 - β β Β½ π₯
France divided over calls for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine to be reburied in PanthΓ©on π
The Guardian
Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ π β Excerpt: What makes great poetry? An exclusive extract from the late criticβs final book The Fire of Joy celebrates the poems he loved most. π
‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell π β Excerpt: Ten months before his death last year at the age of 80, Clive James underwent an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour on his face. Already very frail β he had been suffering from leukaemia for a decade β afterwards it took him almost a week to emerge fully into consciousness.
Every time I read Meera Sodha’s column in The Guardian I find things I must cook. My latest quick reminder list:
π΅ My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (4), KrΔek, Capella Istropolitana (3), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (2), Holland Baroque Society, Rachel Podger (2) & Arte Dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger (1) via tweekly.fm
Published 1 photos on my Flickr account π· π·οΈ lazy, flickrfriday
Aperol Spritzing our way through a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon. π
A Pizza Express Neptune Pizza π β Excerpt: I’m sure Pizza Express won’t mind my singing their praises. I watch my cheese intake, so despite my liking a nice chunk of Cheshire, I very rarely have any. I also like a pizza but again don’t have too many.
