Coronavirus in context: a guide to help you understand the pandemic 🔗 — Excerpt: The coronavirus has grown into a pandemic with far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. We see it as our task to help you understand this worldwide development by providing context for the news in a carefully considered, factual and constructive way.
Just received Tim Anderson’s Vegan JapanEasy in today’s post. Still awaiting delivery of some required ingredients though… 📚
Cricket has lost the role it had in 1939 but it’s still far more than a game 🔗 — Excerpt: Sport means nothing if it is not about passion and connection and nowhere is that more sharply defined than in football, as we have witnessed since coronavirus ripped it from our lives in recent weeks and days.
We’ve got no shortage of coffee making options. ☕️
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Julian Cope (13), Baudo, LPO (10), Bernstein, NYPO (10), Cornershop (10) & Abbado, BPO, Argerich (6) via tweekly.fm
Sunny spring day in the garden, if a little breezy.
Made a loaf using khorasan flour for the first time. Rise was a bit peculiar but I really like the taste and texture.
My walk across desolate Venice 🔗 — Excerpt: Gregory Dowling: So, as I anticipated in my last post, yesterday I had the opportunity to take a long walk across Venice, since I had to go to the university to act as Chairman of a “commissione di laurea”, sitting in front of a computer and connecting telematically with the students…
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Cornershop (70), Soul II Soul (35) & Pet Shimmers (24) via tweekly.fm
Rushden Transport Museum. Check in 🗺 🍺 - drinking Black Country Bitter by Holdens Brewery
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Poet’s corners: a car-free tour of inspiring Wordsworth sites 🔗 — Excerpt: William Wordsworth was born in Cumbria 250 years ago, on 7 April 1770. Inspired by nature and a sense of place, he was an environmentalist as well as a poet, so it’s fitting to visit the places he celebrated in as eco-friendly a way as possible.
Delico Deli. Check in 🗺 - cappuccino and vegan steak bake. ☕️
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Whipped feta, potato stew: Anna Jones’ recipes from Greece 🔗 — Excerpt: One of the things I need to remedy is is not having spent enough time in Greece. I’ve been there only twice (both times to the islands), but I find myself daydreaming about being there more than any other place. I think that’s why I cook so much Greek food.
Anna Jones’ squash and crispy kale pizza recipe 🔗 — Excerpt: Pizza is a big part of my life. It’s both my and my four-year-old’s favourite food, so a lot of our meals revolve around it, and happily so. We are lucky enough to live in a part of London where there are good sourdough pizza places every 10 steps. In pizza terms, we are spoilt rotten.
Currently reading: Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan 📚
