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🔖 Cooking Sunday roast causes indoor pollution ‘worse than Delhi’

During the day of cooking, PM2.5 levels in the house rose to 200 micrograms per cubic metre for one hour, more than the 143 micrograms per cubic metre averaged in Delhi, the sixth most polluted city in the world, and fa... https://thedimpau.se/2019/02/17/cooking-sunday-roast.html

Currently reading: Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781409170679

🔖 Welsh National Opera’s Un Ballo in Maschera - terrific gory fun with pirates, witchcraft and murder. Just seen this and definitely agree with the review. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/10/un-ballo-in-maschera-review-millennium-centre-cardiff-opera

Un ballo in maschera - interval.

Pre-opera glass of wine. At Wales Millennium Centre for Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.

🔖 Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/stunningly-preserved-fresco-of-narcissus-discovered-in-pompeii

♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Lou Reed (24), Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI (15), Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Hespèrion XXI (12), Alan Bush (10) & Jordi Savall & Ensemble Panagiotis Neochoritis (7) via @tweeklyfm@twitter.com

♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI (17), Sigmatropic (13), Young Marble Giants (11), Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse (10) & Jordi Savall & Ensemble Panagiotis Neochoritis (10) via @tweeklyfm@twitter.com

Walking in the snow this afternoon - with a view over Aberdare.

Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.

♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Low (13), Modeste Hugues (4), Slint (4), Talking Heads (3) & A Certain Ratio (2) via @tweeklyfm@twitter.com

Milk!

a strange battle has emerged, between an industry trying to replace something it says we don’t need in the first place, and dairy, a business that for a century sold itself as the foundation of a healthy diet, while ignoring the fact that most of the world does just fine without ... https://thedimpau.se/2019/01/29/milk-a-strange.html

▶ Don’t trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jan/23/dont-trust-daily-mail-website-microsoft-browser-warns-users

♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Steven Osborne (11), Claude Debussy (2), Orchestre National de Lille-Région Nord (Casadesus) (2), Bernstein, NYPO (1) & Monteux, LSO (1) via @tweeklyfm@twitter.com

Tom Gauld on how to deal with owning too many books – ▶︎ https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2019/jan/19/tom-gauld-cartoon-marie-kondo 📚

♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Young'Uns (49), Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano (19), Herman Dune (11), Fidetzis, Athens State Orchestra (7) & Low (2) via @tweeklyfm@twitter.com

♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Suede (33), NoName (9), Spiritualized (9), Pink Floyd (7) & Another Sky (6) via @tweeklyfm@twitter.com

🔗 There is no leftwing justification for Brexit. We must fight it to the last. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/07/no-leftwing-justification-brexit-trumpist-us-eu

Final night out in Venice.

Obligatory Venetian selfie.