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I really hope HISBE can get back on their feet. Not only because I depend on them for my many refills (and with it my much reduced consumption of plastic), but I think their model of local, ethical and sustainable shopping makes a lot of sense.

2024 has already got off to a winning start: Pret have started serving their legendary Roasted Tomato and Egg Mayo Baguettes again. Missed you!

Taking my own advice to get out more, visited Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery to see the Turner Prize exhibition.

I’m so glad I did. Not so much due to the work on display (although Barbara Walker’s beautiful charcoal drawings of people affected by the Windrush scandal are emotionally powerful and the most accessible of the 4 exhibits), but these environments are always a feast for the senses, awakening bits of my brain dulled by pixels and rectangles.