Making art of any kind will always attract the curious, and children can be especially helpful until they suddenly lose interest.

Getting errors from the web mention service I use and need to work out why, so trying from here to see whether anything will be be received at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/make-it-simpler

New episode: What is Chametz?

The Hebrew Bible singles out five grains for special treatment. Two are easy: wheat and barley. Modern science may help identify the other three, but will that change centuries of custom and tradition.

https://eatthispodcast.com/chametz

Latest newsletter revisits Passover and asks a fifth question: if you are an observant Jewish sourdough baker, what do you do with your starter over Passover?

Questions too for sustainable fish, citrus salads and livestock emissions.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-236-leavened/

Cream crackered after spending an hour and a half trying to separate a well overgrown and neglected canna lily from its concrete trough. Very hard going, but now that I have replanted a few offsets, I am taking a well earned break.

TIL about using the Python calendar module from Terminal. What magic is this?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/calendar.html#calendar-cli

The cinematography on the new Ripley is drop dead gorgeous. That is all.

TIL Midnight Diner on Netflix is adapted from a manga series.

https://imaginair.es/@Sammael99/112276428841845445#.

For utterly mysterious reasons my Apple Watch SE lost power from 100% 39 minutes into a three hour hike this morning. Seems fine after a full recharge, but the numbers lie.

Wait, what? You’re in Rome?