Picking up cheeses with John and Farhana
When I was there — a clear blue day in mid-December — the landscape showed itself in the colours used by its mapmakers, as though they had taken their palette direct from the land. Before breakfast I scrambled down the bank to look at the river. It wasn’t there. Instead, I found a few ankle-deep puddles. Some, in a break from the pastel palette, were a bright green. The trees on either side of the banks seemed to lean in, looking for what was absent.
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Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral diseaseGuardian (resilc)
A coveted recipe likened to the Colonel’s secret herbs and spices, is now available for keen bakers!
If anyone can bake a delicious scone – it’s the Country Women’s Association.
Under a new initiative to raise funds for all the great work they do, the CWA is willing to offer up its famous scone recipe!
“The Royal Easter Show has been cancelled, and that’s one of our major fundraisers, with the tea room there,” CWA of NSW President, Stephanie Stanhope, said.
“Aside from that, most of the regional shows have also been cancelled and that’s where a lot of our branches would be out and about, making their presence known, and probably running tea rooms at their local shows. So that source of income has also dried up.”
Branches across the ACT and NSW are urging locals to get behind an alternative fundraising opportunity, with a 21st century feel.
Queen's former chef reveals how to make the perfect scone
Scones by Country Woman's Association member Muriel Halsted, 92 ...
They've announced the winner of this year's Aegon Irodalmi Díjat, a leading Hungarian literary prize (Krasznahorkai László's Baron Wenckheim's Homecomingwon the 2017 award, for example); not yet at the official site, last I checked (they just have the shortlist) but see for example the 24.hu report.
The prize goes to Jól láthatóan lógok it, by Nádasdy Ádám -- a slim (64 page) poetry collection; see also the Magvető Kiadó publicity page.
Forget sourdough! Now home bakers are making SCONES ...
How Shakespeare Changed My Life: Shakespeare in lockdown during the plague.
I had the good fortune of seeing a rather good staging of Lear once, the one starring Paul Scofield
“There is no more fascinating figure in early modern philosophy than…” — someone most people haven’t heard of
“The critical ethical challenge is to render the relationship between individual agency and structural change more perspicuous” — Vafa Ghazavi (Oxford) on how philosophers can help make sense of the pandemic’s “complicated chains of harm”
“Even now one is ashamed of resting, and prolonged reflection almost gives people a bad conscience.” — What did Nietzsche have to say about work?
What philosophical work should you do if you want to influence the rate of technological development? — reflections from Caleb Ontiveros
Interested in philosophy of law or the theoretical study of legal institutions and practices? — join the Legal Philosophy Network, a new Facebook group started by Alex Guerrero (Rutgers)
You may not know her name, but some ideas this philosopher discussed in the early 1900s may sound familiar — Joel Katzav (Queensland) on Helen Huss Parkhurst’s imaginative approach to radical realism
Highly charged debates, journals with high standards, “increasingly technical fine-points,” and the “sharp-edged and somewhat cliquish” environment — some reasons the field of Indian philosophy can be intimidating to a younger scholar, according to Douglas Berger (Leiden)