An urgent plea from Chalk Farm Foodbank (based in Primrose Hill)… The Chalk Farm Foodbank is in desperate need of the following: UHT Milk Tinned Fruit Cleaning products Toiletries: No blades Tinned Meat. The foodbank is open for donations in […]
Infectious Reads: Books on Plagues and Pestilence
You may be reading books to distract yourself from the outside world, but if you require your literature to reflect the current climate, here is a selection of ‘infection’ books. Plague of Athens by Thucydides The ‘Plague of Athens’ hit […]
Notes from the Edge
By Brenda Stones. Yes, I’ve got it. Got IT. Not just The Flu, I reckon, but THE flu. How can you be sure, with no testing available? Well, you check the list of symptoms daily: yes, got that one; no, […]