Notes from Isolation Week 4 & 5

Read:

India Knight’s piece on why cooking is the welcome distraction we need – here. “Cooking, no matter how random, is about valuing yourself and those you love enough to feed them something good. It is deeply consoling”.

“Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary – it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make life appear interesting or humdrum.” – William Boyd, Any Human Heart.

I am soooo behind but I devoured Sex Education and have become completely OBSESSED – reading and watching every interview I can get my hands on. Really liked this recent one with the sensational Aimee Lou Wood – here.

Listen:

To Reese Witherspoon’s beautifully candid conversation with Jameela Jamil on Jameela’s podcast I Weigh

Follow:

Violet by Claire Ptak here for delicious and delightful sweet treat inspiration. A friend gave me her cookbook for my birthday and I’ve finally read cover to cover. You can also find her recipes for the Guardian here.

Make:

My seeds have arrived! Which I am very excited about.I ordered french beans, borlotti beans, parsley, basil, chives, rocket and corn salad. Tomatoes and chillis are on my list for when they are back in stock. I am yet to plant so don’t have a picture of them in their beds but wanted to share as planting is so easy and now is the perfect time. You don’t need a garden, just a window sill, a few pots, some peat-free compost and a watering can.

Mine are from Vital Seeds

Watch:

Twin – a new Nordic noir on BBC Four – watch here.

And Normal People here. “Sally Rooney’s love story is a small-screen triumph” says Lucy Mangan in the Guardian today.

A short film by Emergence Magazine about the Church Forests of Ethiopia – a fascinating study of trees and the belief that our fate is tied with theirs. Watch here.