Shout out to Read Easy UK (charity I volunteer with) - help adults learn to read. Will take referrals from family/friends/yourself/councils - we want to help and you can learn to read. Fabulous group to be involved with.

Recovering from being badly glutened (coeliac) and not managing to eat anything without severe pain, I’ve had huel for the last 3 weeks. It’s disgusting but kept me going until my gut could tolerate gf bread, then eggs and then v overcooked cauliflower cheese 🎉🎉 today cooked apple!! 🤞

Fruit leather will work really well for plums and pears. Keeps forever that way. Never tried with quinces but worth a try? Otherwise cook and can in a pressure cooker and lasts for years if you’ve done it properly.

Queen at Knebworth (last concert with Freddie) but since then the incredible Operation mincemeat (London and Broadway) - flown to NYC to see the OG cast (& understudies) 3 times now.

I left school in the 1980s but covered Amritsar but that was it. My youngest (took GCSEs this summer not including history) and did a whole course on empire. Thought Empireland was one of the best books they’ve ever read.