This week:
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after a massive rescheduling—we were originally supposed to go in February—Ellie and I finally got to see comedian Hannah Gadsby’s new “feelgood show” Body of Work and it was fucking hilarious!
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The new washing machines arrived, got installed and works as intended—the one that came with the house which was ten years old, had served us well
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with numerous illnesses going around Jude’s nursery, he’s unsurprisingly brought them home and him and me and both coughing now
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after almost a decade since I last went down the rabbithole of cupcake baking—I’m now revisiting and improving the line-up, first up: Butterscotch-filled Swedish-style Gingerbread Cupcakes with Blue Cream Cheese Frosting—which are now on v4
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favourite song: 1973 (Acoustic) by James Blunt
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currently reading: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Covid-19 cases (UK): 24,281,498 (11th December)1
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Monkeypox cases (UK): 3,730 (9th December)2
Stand-up comedy and cupcake baking, what more could you want from a week?
An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time ↩
Edouard Mathieu, Fiona Spooner, Saloni Dattani, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2022) - “Monkeypox”. Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: https://ourworldindata.org/monkeypox. ↩