Carbonara made with guanciale really does make a difference. Got its own brand of saltiness. Well worth it

Couldn't get tickets for the Kusama exhibition at the Tate? Pop over to Melbourne and see it instead...the weather is lovely

Enchanted Adventure, Mornington Peninsula, Vic.

Where is the next station ?Classical Studies Memes

Thinking of doing a south Indian remix of Airto Moreira. It'll be called "Sambar de Flora".

At least Jaiswal has plenty of time to do catching practice now #ENGvIND

Why would you describe something as a Titanic related "immersive" show? Do they not have even a basic knowledge of linguistics?

How is the assessment of this going Wandsworth Council? (I write this from a comfortable seat on a very stationary bus on Putney Bridge Road, and have plenty of time to write it, as we aren't going anywhere fast soon) wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-july…

Reading the first few pages of Ronald Turnbull's The Book of the Bivvy and resolving to get my bivvy bag and tarp out of the loft this autumn.

"BMP is a ropey format" "Easy for you to say" "Actually no, I'm a ventriloquist"

Little souvenir from Kiln Theatre to join my other Mark O'Rowe script - Reunion more straightforward theatre but the writing tight as you'd expect for MOR and the production grips you for over an hour and a half. Well worth a trip

Reading the first Swallows & Amazons book to my daughter and I've been cheating by reading later books to myself secretly (again). It got me wondering, of all the great passages in the books which is the greatest? This paragraph might be my favourite of them all The Arthur Ransome Society

Did you know: if you tap pistachios gently and they don't close up, then they are dead and you should discard them

Only a few pages into my Mark Galeotti penned Christmas present and we've touched on racketeering in Ancient Greece, pigs on trial (an early Duran Duran demo) and how organised crime levels collate with political stability - shaping up to be a very enjoyable busman's holiday read

Two strong defences in the #SuperBowl: an advertisers' dream

With summer approaching, Octopus Energy decided now was the best time to increase my monthly payments by 37% despite the account being over £100 in credit exiting the winter months. Fortunately the steps to reverse this nonsense are simple

Imagine being the Last Universal Common Ancestor and not knowing what you would go on to achieve