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Has lockdown spelled the end of cutlery? A friend of mine commented the other day that he had stopped using a knife and fork, and nowadays all meals were eaten with a spoon. That stopped me in my tracks, because I realised I was doing exactly the same. Knives and forks had now become 'formal dining'.
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Is this a lockdown change, or are we reverting to the Middle Ages style of dining?
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Something to think about while we wrestle with the ideas of 'New Normal, and while we sample this week's offerings from our talented Safreans.
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Time Off: What we will be watching this week:
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It's a fairly standard and predictable crime drama, with a slight twist in that the two protagonists (the world-weary veteran and the wide-eyed neophyte) are journalists and not police officers. But what sets this Netflix series apart, is that it is set in Poland in the 80s - a country in the grip of both communism and winter. If ever there was an advertisement for the sheer awfulness of life under communism, this would be it. The ghastly cheap goods, the comic-horrid cars, the dreadful decor and architecture, the grinding cheerlessness of life, and the overwhelming dread of the small faceless bureaucrat with the power of life and death. Communism is the real 'star' of The Mire, a high-quality show with a digestible six episodes.
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Old Bedroom Eyes goes the distance and more good news for our learned friends
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It's been a busy week for our roving news editor, who brings you a jaundiced eye view of the happenings of the last week.
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We all like survival stories, so here Profmed member Floris Burger tells journalist Margot Bertelsmann about his remarkable near-death experience when he contracted Covid-19. This was written on behalf of Profmed, the life insurance company.
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“Apple, meet X Æ A-12.” Why do celebrities’ kids have weird names?
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Some things make sense, some things need some explaining. Here veteran Safrean Tiffany Markman brings some sanity to baby names.
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Funny-haha or Funny-peculiar?
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Time to think about life beyond, well, life. What do the symbols of passing mean to different people? Alexis Grewan gives us food for thought.
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