I too have been ignoring Spotify's apparently ...

I too have been ignoring Spotify's apparently magical Discover Weekly these past several weeks, not because I was feeling algorithmicly manipulated, but because I've just had more of a hankering to listen to whole albums. Unfortunately, unlike Phil Gyford, even when I was doing Discover Weekly regularly, it didn't seem to surface anyone in particular for me. Maybe I should try again.

My kind of Xmas tree.

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My kind of Xmas tree.

A mostly white (5% each rye and wholemeal) sourdough loaf for Sunday breakfast and beyond.

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A mostly white (5% each rye and wholemeal) sourdough loaf for Sunday breakfast and beyond.

Anna Jones’ peanut butter kale ready for the oven.

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Anna Jones’ peanut butter kale ready for the oven.

I was tempted by a fully electric ...

I was tempted by a fully electric car earlier this summer, but the cruel fact is that in a city or apartments, in which we have no access to a garage (or "box" as they are known here) there just wouldn't be any way to re-fuel. So I got a hybrid. Then, over the past few weeks, the city has been hard at work installing two charging stations on the corner. Currently they are not yet functional, and occupied by gas-guzzling SUVs.

When they are functional, I wonder how the city plans to keep other cars from occupying the spaces. I suspect they won't.

I have just one question: how on Earth do they get whole chestnuts for marron glacé?

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I have just one question: how on Earth do they get whole chestnuts for marron glacé?

I have not yet been bitten by ...

I have not yet been bitten by this particular version of helpfulness gone awry, but I am aware it could happen, and I agree with Peter that there really ought to be a simple way to indicate that someone is no longer available to be shared with.