One month on, C is addicted and anxious when the jar is running low and tells me to go by the big Waitrose on the way home for more Chinese leaf. Down the kimchi mines, feel like the dad from Parasite

You can tell she's enjoying herself too, it's always quite playful

They need to stop air/bacteria entering the jar but also allow gas to escape

Charlie is the artistic director and I just peel and chop vegetables. I think you have to go to a Chinese grocers for a few niche ingredients and the jar had to be bought specially

2. At the same time, he is appealing against a High Court ruling obliging the government to stop rivers being poisoned by human sewage. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On a more cheering note here are my family's dogs

I don't often get to spend Christmas in Belfast these days and I enjoyed it- but dear me, the ageing process. My parents & neighbours have an unofficial network keeping an eye on all the local residents with dementia and there doesn't seem to be very much social care. Some day soon it'll be us...

I got it today but my win rating is only 56%. Usually foiled by some breakfast cereal or college basketball team I've never heard of