Let Someone Else Do It

 Boy, it's been a low mood week. On here, out there, in my head, there is an awful lot of feeling ungood. I know there have been dips and peaks throughout this very weird year-and-a-month-apparently-whaaaaat (I've only just heard of this extremely on the nose Explaining The Pandemic to My Past Self series) but it feels like we're in a low which has lasted for ages. Vaccination news remains a massive plus but when does it translate into genuine improvements and openings up? And how will we feel when it does? I do not know. I do know I'm tired and low and making my own entertainment last weekend was good but also very long. Though I am looking forward to the shops opening enough for me to browse for that new kettle I need.

This weekend, I am strictly taking prepackaged things. I have a very promising Dishpatch which involves just enough cooking that I don't feel redundant, without being in any way tricky. My cocktail tonight (yes, I will be there at 7 #ConfinedCocktails) will very likely be from the Manhattans Project April bunch (I'm thinking the Corpse Reviver Blue should wait, so it may well be an American Trilogy - the weather feels bourbon-y at present). 

And my entertainment this weekend has been entirely someone else's problem. I'm typing this listening to a seminar on Mughal art, which will segue into most of the talks from HistFest. Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to be PHONED by ACTORS for a one-hour-max personal performance in four parts. Which is slightly terrifying but I follow one of the writers and, well. We shall see. I miss theatre, and the way it's changing for pandemic times is sometimes fascinating. 

So much cheese (the packs would do for two). See the extras stacked in my tea tray for later - will be cheese n cocktails in fact at 7

Last night, though, I did an unreservedly successful event: the Courtyard Dairy's online cheese tasting, this one of French classics. Which was fun, and a pleasant evening but also as they were keen to underline, an absolute lifeline for cheesemakers, for the business and for the whole industry of cheese which has been banjaxed by the Current Unpleasantness. 60% of their business is now cheese tastings online - which is mad, and also amazingly pleasing. 

My main takeaway from this not excellent week, therefore? It is possible to make the world a little better by sitting at home eating cheese. There is hope.