Made white chicken chilli with ground coriander grown in our own garden in Sussex for a family with three citizenships; the virtues of globalisation 🥰

First time I’ve harvested coriander seeds, not much but rather nice!

Turns out Gombrowicz had opinions about Columnists™️

Lunch of champions in train. The Western mind cannot comprehend this

V cringe post but small things make me happy. When we bought this rose this spring, the roots were largely dead and just fell off when taken out of the pot. Most of the branches and leaves died. Took a while but the plant revived and it flowered today.

Living up to the Bluesky stereotype

So good and so underrated

Rain and sun - good for herbs, turns out

Did parkrun this morning. Took photo after, by the train station. It was wet

This writing verges on the funny bad, the prose style of an overgrown child

Yeah more spending = fine if balanced by more taxes, less taxes fine if balanced by less spending, it’s just the Thanos meme

Some news from me and Charlotte

I’m sorry but this sounds from Carherine West’s statement very like “the post of ambassador to Kirgistan, for instance. I hear there are growing tourism links and the mountain valleys will be blooming soon.”

Completed the Mid-Sussex Marathon Weekend. It’s very fun, three trail races over three days that add up to a full marathon distance (2x10 miles + 1x10k). Tricky bit is the 600m elevation gain over rutted fields. Photos cred to wife and Sussex Races

Sometimes, I think to myself what a privilege it is to have Polish as my native language and how truly great our literary heritage is. Here’s Miłosz just in clear, simple language spelling out the beauty of a deontic moral understanding of being

“It’s not about a summer of sex, it’s about a year-round focus on cost of living”

This may be the best quote I’ve ever read in the Times. Particularly the first two sentences

Not a bad view walking back to London Bridge tonight station innit

1:36:12 ain’t half bad, though not quite my 1:30 target. London Landmarks ✔️

I’m an idiot but these numbers are still irrational for a Suez-style setback for the US with a totalitarian state proving control of 20% of global oil trades

Oh yeah I was actually wrong because that only applies if the k sound becomes palatalised, so misremembered but it is correct for Jakiem Chirakiem!

Hello darkness my old friend

“People in London didn’t heat their flats”. So that UK flats are cold is something my parents thought when they lived in the UK in the 90s and was clearly a stereotype in the 60s (reading a memoir/ essay by Grynberg) Enjoy this little tidbit

I’m at the New Statesman growth conference and I was not expecting to enjoy this but the discussion with Professor Lord Richard Layard is now onto how wellbeing indices reflect the human condition and you know what, I’ve missed this

Up to 37k now; I do feel a marathon is doable. Ditchling Beacon and Blackcap included. Elevation gain 650m which I’m very pleased with

More parkrun tourism as we go to Uckfield. Absolutely gorgeous, I think second prettiest I’ve seen (after Portrush). Also, entirely trail and a genuine challenge, which is fun!

Kemi Badenocb is standing to be my mayor??

This is where I’m at too - slower growth, 2.5% inflation rather than 2.0%, more expensive petrol for a few months and Russian economy strengthened.