A charity bake sale on Saturday 4th November

Plus fermented soda, vegan cookies, croissants from The Newt, chocolate from William Curley and a discount code for wine and produce.

I hope you’re doing ok? I didn’t mention the world news last week and I still don’t feel qualified to add anything to the conversation, but I thought I’d share some things from people I know that I think can, and also just acknowledge the pain of it all.

I don’t know if I have Palestinian readers, but I do know that some of you are in Israel. My heart is with all of the people caught in this and all of the other horrors around the world.

If you don’t know Femi Oluwale, he’s an activist with specialisms in human rights law and politics. He doesn’t claim to be a Middle Eastern expert, but has generously done the work of summarising the situation for anyone also feeling overwhelmed but wanting some context. This is really worth the 9 minutes to watch.