Sadly, lockdown returns. It shouldn't really come as a surprise; things just haven't gone too well. The timing is unfortunate as public firework displays that may have been planned under the current restrictions will now be unable to go ahead. Many people will be disappointed and shops have already reported a late surge in people purchasing fireworks for private family displays in their own gardens.
We have to wonder whether Americans really appreciate the sandwich quite as much as they should. After all, the invention of the sandwich is surely at least as big a milestone in the development of civilisation as the wheel.
It's that sinister time of year again: the time of mutilated pumpkins, grotesque masks, zombies, ghoulies, ghosties and creeping Americanisms. Terrifying.
We wrote just a while ago about the surprising resilience of the private plates market. Well, the virtual ink is barely dry on that previous post and already we find ourselves bringing more news of big sales.
British Food Fortnight was a natural companion for the already long-established, traditional Harvest Festival, so it was timed so that the two would coincide, thus British Food Fortnight takes place during the last week of September and the first week of October.