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My Vietnamese Spring Rolls The one thing most irritating thing about feeling unwell is that it’s boring I’m on the third day of           Antibiotic and although my urine is now a clear amber I still feel lethargic and not well and still have a backache. I’ve done laundry, odd jobs and have moved things from one place in the cottage to another , which is a thing most of us do when we are feel at a bit of a loss  The dogs have been walked, Trefor’s dressing completed and I’ve made tasty Vietnamese spring rolls with   Rice wrappers I found in my sushi drawer.  These non fried rolls I filled with vermicelli noodles, prawns and salmon, coriander and slivers of avocado ( I didn’t have lettuce ) the dipping sauce is a simple mixture of fish sauce, lime juice, garlic, chilli, a tiny bit of sugar and water The 2014 memorial for the Honghkou Shanghai Jews I then watched a documentary Harbor From The Holocaust which was a moving and fascinatin...

"It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now. If we don’t get serious about climate change today, it will be too late for our children to do so tomorrow." - Boris Johnson opening the COP26 conference in Glasgow - Nov 1st 2021 Soon after delivering this speech, Johnson flew back to London by private jet. His urgent prime-ministerial mission was to keep a dinner date at the exclusively male Garrick Club. There he guzzled and quaffed with one Charles Moore, a former editor of "The Daily Telegraph". They left the club together at 10pm. Incidentally, it was Johnson who made prominent right winger Moore a life peer in The House of Lords. He is now Baron Moore of Etchingham. Moore was the editor of "The Spectator" when he gave an aspiring young journalist his first job in the 1980's and yes, you may have guessed it - that young upstart was Boris Johnson himself. However, the key point I wish to register here is the blatan...