Tiny love stories
An oldie, but this piece in the Irish Times that asks whether Sally Rooney’s heroines are too thin feels more relevant than ever
Sweet baby Jesus, Arnotts has released the recipe for their famed Scotch Finger biscuit and it only uses four (!!) ingredients
Last week, we watched Instagram in fascination as the Guardian’s lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman got married in front of 400 (!) people on the internet, and this juicy behind-the-scenes piece tells you everything you ever wanted to know about getting hitched online (“On the day of our wedding, I was running late. My friend had arranged a “bridal prep” breakfast, complete with pink champagne and some of the people closest to me. My hands were trembling as I did my makeup. I glued my eyelids together trying to insert false lashes. I left my phone on the floor and showed my bridal party my underpants as I stepped over it in a panic.”)
Wealth shown to scale (whatever you do, keep scrolling)
Over on Twitter, the musician Nick Harvey asked people to share the unexpected positives that have come from the lockdown, and the responses are wonderful
Five nannies spill the dirt on what it’s been like to work during the pandemic (“There’s so many people coming in and out of the house. There’s a sports coach for the kids, and he goes to other people’s houses and works with their kids, too. And then they have the chef that goes to the grocery store every day. There’s people who come in to do hair blow-dries a few days a week, a manicurist, a personal trainer. The other housekeepers and nannies are like, This is really ridiculous. They haven’t asked any of the workers to stop coming in. Why don’t they care?”)
This is super interesting: why the virus has viciously attacked some countries, while other places have been left relatively unscathed
The absolute LEGENDS over at the newsletter Girls’ Night In have compiled a mammoth open-access, collaborative Google Sheet of over 80 free (or free trial) exercise classes you can do online. There’s barre, meditation, pilates, dance, strength, you name it, with instructors all over the world 💪
This man is all of us
Only in the era of Coronavirus could a song written by a 5-year-old about buttholes, aliens and astronauts go viral
Podcast rec! This week Lizzie’s been bingeing on The Immaculate Deception, the story of a fertility doctor in Rotterdam who used his own sperm to inseminate his patients without their knowledge or consent, fathering more than 60 children. (Lizzie: “It’s a shocking listen. He really thought he was doing the right thing by giving women who wanted children, children. It’s ew but so fascinating."
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Recipes we’ve bookmarked this week include these extra corny cornbread muffins, Rachel Roddy’s hopeful spring risotto, chickpea pasta in a spring vegetable stew, perfectly holey crumpets (with an excellent how-to guide), one bowl shortbread (no whisk!), this kale, bacon and hashbrowns slice, and every! single! cake! on this epic list of flourless cakes put together by the good folk at the Guardian
