Bits And Bobs

An absolutely dreamy school bus conversion.

A (somewhat) scientific investigation behind a huge pet peeve of mine.

A gorgeous 900-square-foot Cotswold cottage.

Yippee! A new Sharon Horgan series. Can’t wait.

Just one shocking story after another.

Not surprising in the slightest.

Watching: The second glorious season of fabulous bonkbuster Rivals just landed. So. Much. Fun.

Just Read: The Guardian And The Thief In the near-future, Kolkata, India is buckling under climate collapse—famine, brutal heat, and vanishing resources—and survival is a daily gamble. Ma, her father, and her young daughter, Mishti, are on the brink of escape, just days away from joining her husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan  Then, overnight, everything is stolen from them. Their home is broken into and the bag containing their precious passports and visas is gone. The thief is Boomba, a 20-year-old fighting his own losing battle—trying to provide for his parents and his beloved younger brother, Robi, in a world that offers him no good choices. Over seven days, we follow these two families whose worlds have collided, binding their fates together, watching as morality blurs and desperation erodes the sense of right and wrong, its weight shifting uneasily back and forth between Ma and Boomba. Who really is the guardian here and who the thief? This is not an easy read. Its atmosphere is claustrophobic, its weight is heavy, it thrums with misery and remorse. But it also entrances with its beautiful writing, its piercing details, the sharpness of its empathy. And as it draws to its quietly devastating conclusion, it forces us to ponder one haunting question: who would we all become if scarcity left no room for mercy?