This week I have been

Reading

The 2011 Tour de France race guide.

Watching

An Idiot Abroad

Listening to

The xx

Discovering

(Or rediscovering) Hamlet - Nicki Greenberg's beautiful new version, thanks to the fabulous Snarkattack, who invited me along to see Nicki talk about the creative process behind the book.

Eating

  • An enormous serve of bangers'n'mash and a nourishing pint of Kilkenny at the Town Hall one dismal Tuesday evening.
  • A "Chachi" - chianina meatball sandwich - another brioche donut and some amazing chocolate tart at Beatrix, which Essjay has reviewed.
  • A lazy Sunday lunch at The Crimean. The Polish hunter's stew (bigos) was just the thing to revive me after a chilly bike ride.
  • Generous piles of fried food with oodles of chillies and sichuan peppercorns at Sichuan House
  • Succulent suckling pig at Liberteene.
  • An array of bright, zesty flavours at Chin Chin, where the only problem was having to choose only some of the items from what looks to be a menu that is all hits, no filler.

Links

Seven things

By injera, on June 26th, 2008%

In his column in today’s Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash suggests seven things that those of us outside Zimbabwe can do to support Zimbabweans in achieving a democratic government. Read the article here.

One of the seven recommended actions is to sign the petition at avaaz.org. He notes that the number of signatories rose from around 90,000 to 111,000 whilst he was writing his column. When I signed, it was at around the 120,000 mark and it now sits at over 160,000. Please add your support!

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