Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Damson curd? (No, I’ve never made it). More seriously, might you have a local greengrocer who’d take them? I wish buying mirabelles and damsons were easier. And if all else fails, a box at the gate with a plea for passers-by to take them… 000
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I LOVED it. Got more involved with every minute that passed 100
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Having I think improved for a few days, my iPad is once again showing where I’d reached on my iPhone for about thirty seconds before snapping back to where I’d last been reading on the iPad itself. Very annoying! 110
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 27/05/2026My iPad and iPhone versions of Boost Blue no longer sync properly: when I move device, the app shows the right number of unread messages, but after I’ve read a couple, skips back to where I was reading when I Iast used that device. Can anything be done? Device OSs and apps are up to date. 120
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The pure ganache and the Japanese black vinegar filled chocolates are particularly fine, I think 010
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The excellent William Curley? Smith’s Court, off Brewer St 110
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I’m very glad you’re being looked after so well. Recover quickly! 010
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I acted, within 24 hours, as you’d expect, and your judgment has been applauded here: thank you! 120
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026This is pretty obvious: but check the opening times for the Burges church at Fountains - it’s only 1-3.30, I think. 100
Reposted by CaroJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The third para here is also evidence of this. 35014
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Using-up-what’s-in-the-fridge gratin of fennel/red onion/potato/cream/herbs with a radicchio/watercress salad. Then PC rice pudding with bay leaf and forced rhubarb baked in blood orange juice/star anise. In frabjous day news: glass of my fav Punt e Mes with a slice of orange 000
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Each sentence dense with information. The way in which he was handed on from rich man to rich man even after his lies and thefts were discovered… 010
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Her substack today says she wrote about it in her 2022 book, The Palace Papers. 000
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 01/02/2026The caption actually made me laugh aloud: worthy of the NYT in its coyness 010
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I was there yesterday - what an extraordinary survival it is, and how marvellous that it is kept open. 010
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Roast cauliflower/onion on pita with harissa/tahini sauce and chopped cuc/avocado/olive/parsley salad. Then a sensibly bought spare Christmas pud from Quince (really good: very nutty, light, alcoholic; not very sweet). Glass q basic white left over from book club. 020
Reposted by CaroJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/01/2026This might be the most incredible video you'll ever see 141
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026So enjoying it - can hardly believe I’ll have to wait for vol II (I assume he’s working on it?). 010
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Do you know about this amazing place in Park Royal? www.levantlondon.com 120
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025IIRC (can’t face opening the website again) that obit actually talked about his focus on the clean, elegant design of the paper. 040
Reposted by CaroMatthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 01/12/2025This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation. 110032
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I’ve been using @boostblue.bsky.social, which makes this possible. WHAT a boon 120
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Ha! The Vision of Visions heals the Blindness of Sight :rearranges veils: 110
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I didn’t make it! It is a v posh though perhaps rather too salty one from La Fromagerie 000
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025God that sounds good. Here virtuous leftovers of bean/cavolo nero/January King soup with, admittedly, the same lashings of grated Parmesan. Also leftover pork pie + fennel sausage and a mustardy green salad (not leftover). Muscat grapes. 110
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025This is the loveliest tribute to his wife, the writer Rachel Cooke, by Anthony Quinn in the Observer:https://observer.co.uk/style/features/article/her-amazing-smile-was-undimmed-and-i-would-try-anything-to-summon-it 010
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Uses here are (a) cabbage and (b) seed cake. Both of which I love. But this evening it was fennel and it was good - thank you! 100
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 18/11/2025SO good. Also caraway seeds. I shall now be adding one or the other alongside the white beans/leeks/miso dressing/hb eggs thing I’m making for supper. Thank you! 100
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I should have added: @laurahughesft.bsky.social’s series is this, Toxic Legacypodcasts.toxicpodcasts.toxic 000
Caro @soaniclb.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Very good news and the result of some fine reporting and an unsensational but gripping podcast series. 100
Reposted by CaroDr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social · 14/11/2025'Sharp women everywhere, I tell you: be pointy and proud.' One of my favourite Rachel Cooke reviews (there are so many to choose from). She was especially good at writing about group biography, having written one herself (Her Brilliant Career). What a fantastic critic she was, a one-off.theguardian.comSharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean – reviewDean’s group biography of female writers who dared speak their mind is a great and worthy project 0308
