While I’m on the subject of Anglesey food, I should promote the fact that our local restaurant, The Marram Grass, which started serving breakfast to the caravan site and more recently has appeared regularly in the Good Food Guide, has converted itself into a farm shop which serves the most delicious small loaves of bread if one arrives early enough, which I normally don’t, the most delectable sausages made out of the pigs across the road, and a small number of vegetables, including kohlrabi which looks beautiful and which we still haven’t worked out how to eat:-

We called in at Beaumaris Gaol, one of the great surviving examples of early nineteenth-century criminal justice, designed by Joseph Hansom of the Hansom Cab and his partner, Edward Welch, and opened in 1829 as it says prominently on its austere stone portico.

It occupies a block on Steeple Lane, immediately opposite the town church:-

The entrance portico:-

The chapel:-

The staircase and corridors:-

We enjoyed Tide at Halen Môn last summer and bought their bread during lockdown, so were pleased to be able to go to their new big tent today to enjoy their Gruyere and Courgette tart and socially distanced wild flowers:-

Very beautiful and atmospheric photographs of Charleston in the latest post on the Bible of British Taste:-

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/charleston-farmhouse-needs-you

Red sky at night:-

Red sky in the morning:-

Attached is the best piece of long form journalism as to what went wrong in March leading to Britain’s poor performance in facing the pandemic and the highest number of deaths.

The analysis is helped by the fact that it has obviously been informed by a great deal of insider information, including possibly Cummings himself, so sounds like a semi-official version of events. It is particularly useful to the government because it implies that the problems are systemic, requiring root-and-branch reform, and are not in any way the fault of any individual, most especially Cummings as the advocate of herd immunity, and Johnson for taking a two-week holiday at the end of February in order to sort out the arrangements for his divorce. It avoids any culpability in poor judgment or human error, which is no doubt the 10, Downing Street view. But is it the view of the rest of the country ?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/08/why-britain-failed-coronavirus-pandemic/615166/

A nice account of the perils of Charleston under Covid in this month’s New Yorker:-

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/will-charleston-a-fanciful-bloomsbury-shrine-be-a-covid-casualty

Llanbadrig Churchyard is on the edge of the sea, windswept and remote, marking the site where St. Patrick was shipwrecked on his way from Iona to Ireland and decided to build a church:-

We went up to the north of the island to a place we used to visit long ago, an old derelict Porcelain Works down a grassy track, past reed beds to a rocky cove:-