Kate Evans

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Same! (To Paapa, not the Lithuanian)

Hamlet is probably mine, but Othello is fairly high.

Toby Jones is tempting - if he was doing something more cheerful I’d be there like a shot, but Othello doesn’t grab me.

Cheers! I have a Negroni Rosa, before some slightly experimental cooking - the experiment being if the husband can eat it. #ConfinedCocktails

A hand with orange painted nails holds a cocktail glass containing an orange liquid in front of a vase of orange flowers.

A Santana to start the weekend (tequila, Amaro Santoni, bianco vermouth).

A square golden brown bread, studded with black olives.

Please admire my focaccia (pretty pleased with this, considering the yeast was more than a year out of date… #ArchivedIngredients

A bright pink flower with a yellow centre with a bumblebee sitting on it.

A red flower

The side of a gothic cathedral, with the sun shining on it.

#UnconfinedWalks around the cathedral grounds. Quiche a few flowers still out - also #BonusBee

The chutney is very much for the husband… and I don’t know what the cheeses are yet, I’ll find out during the tasting.

The theme is Alpine cheeses. I am very much looking forward to these.

I would be tempted to see it again, if the Southbank wasn’t such a schlep.

No cocktail, in anticipation of a cheese and wine tasting in a bit - so here is a photo of the cheese instead. We’ve been out two evenings this week (to excellent things both times), which is the most we’ve done in some time! #ConfinedCocktails

A circular geometric design painted in shades of blue, with a silver border and a silver painted star in the centre.

Finished this the other day. Enjoyed painting all the blues, very soothing.

A hand with purple painted nails holds a short glass containing a reddish purple liquid, a large ice cube and a sprig of rosemary in front of a vase of purple flowers.

Just back from a very interesting talk by Andrew Graham-Dixon on his new interpretation of Vermeer, which I like. Now drinking this Negrino (Sloe gin, fino sherry, gentian liqueur) which I also like.

The front cover of a programme for Top Hat The Musical.

This was brilliant! With a full orchestra, very rare in regional touring these days.

You deserve a holiday!

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

Any recommendations so far? I have a bottle of Italian rose from that range but I haven’t got around to trying it yet.

The one I’ve got (Giffard banane du Brasil) is really nice and not artificial tasting - don’t know about others.

Here is this afternoon’s Sour Cherry Negroni - I have just finished a tiny Anomaly (Mezcal, sherry, banana liqueur) but completely forgot to take a photo of it… #ConfinedCocktails

A hand with deep pink painted nails holds a short glass containing a pale pink liquid in front of a vase of flowers, including dark pink roses.

A Pinky Negroni to start the weekend. Was trying to match the nails to the roses - not a bad attempt but not quite!

The front cover of a programme for the play Dear England by James Graham.

Saw this last night and really enjoyed it, even as a non football fan. Very clever storytelling and staging.

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Two books, spines towards the camera: Winter in the Highlands by Flora Shedden and Winter in Tuscany by Amber Guiness.

A theme emerging in recent cook book purchases.

I spent years writing mine on freelance payment claims, so I know mine off by heart as well. It’s surprisingly useful to know.

Another week, another attempt to get Canterbury council to tell me how long my road will be closed for…

You are tougher than me.

In seasonal change news, the opaque tights have been deployed…

I will remember that come Christmas!