*It was roasted Japanese *seaweed*! 🙄

And I like the fact Tilda Swinton invented a cocktail for them - “the Usual” - in their Wilde’s Bar*. My fav Crème de Violette; lime juice & 🍾

*Oscar died (‘beyond his means’) in this hotel

Followed by a *sensational* lamb chop of *huge* intensities of just; mint; a broccoli 🥦 purée; à confit garlic clove; more anchovy. That sauce was deep, complex and super. & a pud of amaretto ice cream with a hazelnut mi-cuit. An eau de vie to finish 🙃

But for sheer theatricality, the ‘immersive room’ of Hockney’s opera sets will be incredibly memorable

It for me the highlight are Hockney’s superb Normandy landscapes, many from ‘l’époch pando’

It does seem rather odd to come to Paris to see wonderfully evocative Yorkshire landscapes

Contempt of court laws are doing nothing to help the good administration justice, and an awful lot to harm it. But the justice system cling to them as if they’re a life jacket rather than an anchor.

We also used to have a higher rate of income tax on ‘unearned income’ (my landowning father used to moan about this) & an extra 5% on that would also be just, reasonable and effective

NI is a terrible way to raise tax. Penalises workers and employers’ NI disincentivises hiring.

Income tax captures wealthy pensioners & rentiers

A 25% basic rate is reasonable given NHS demand & defence needs. People forget 30%+ basic rate used to be the norm in 70s/early 80s

hth:

www.nisbets.co.uk/the-law-on-c...

What a turnaround! You’ve been heroes when so many others would have given up.

She’s doing so well 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

Am going to the Rick Stein fish cookery school, in Padstow, in November, for an 😬 ‘advanced’ course 😅

So I’m practicing fish butchery & recipes so as not to embarrass myself

Would it be pretentious to arrive with my own 🐟 filleting knife? 😂 or, actually, illegal to have it on the 🚆 there!?! 😮

She has a good feel about (! TBH I’ve never had a woman up there 😂) and she said it feels “nice and elastic”. The little lump the GP felt is just benign tissue apparently