Basil and wine - in the midst of making pizza 🍕 🍷

The scramble for Edtech — just another data mining operation? 🔗 — Excerpt: …students aren’t really the customers, they are the product.

Published 5 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ venice, italy, ilford, xp2

Published 1 photo on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ canoneos300d, flickrfriday, polished

Cardiacs' Tim Smith: a one-man subculture who inspired total devotion — Excerpt: Tim Smith, who has died aged 59, made a bizarre kind of rock music that was so wrong it was right. 🎵

Chris Frantz: Remain in Love 🔗 — Excerpt: David Byrne overwhelms the image of Talking Heads. With his herky-jerky mannerisms, loopy persona and arch lyrics – not to mention his command of the songwriting credits through much of their catalogue – he eclipsed the efforts of every other member of the band. 🎵📚

Watched: Annihilation, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥

Watched: Looper, 2012 - ★★★ 🎥

Watched: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, 2018 - ★★★★ 🎥

Check in 🗺 — Tinto Lounge. First meal out since the beginning of March. Very good vegan Beyond Cheese Burger with a glass of Malbec 🍔 🍷 😃

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Goan Fish Curry with Fragrant Rice 🔗 — Excerpt: Method Prep time: 10 min Cooking time: 30 min Step 1 Put a saucepan with 500ml of salted water on to boil. Wash the rice in a sieve under cold running water. Lightly crush the cardamom pods, just enough to reveal the seeds.

Watched: Weekend, 1967 - ★★★½ 🎥

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Algiers (27), Nadine Shah (11), Abbado, BPO (1), Furtwängler, BPO (1) & Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (1) via tweekly.fm

Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Sri Lankan cucumber cashew curry 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s possible that I could count on my fingers and toes how many Brits have cooked a cucumber before.