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  • AboutEphemeral -u0026gt; short-lived, lasting but a day. These posts are a collection of fleeting thoughts about my life in Bristol and my travels, adventures, experiences and general hobbies. The name is a pleasing reminder of the Greek word for newspaper, efimerida, although what I write isn’t always news. Also, please check out the Ephemeral Food map of the restaurants I have visited. I am involved in the blogging competition TH!NK3 and posts on development will be posted here as well as at the site http://development.thinkaboutit.eu. The following posts are more reflective pieces and perhaps add a little more information about me: June When Can You Manicure The Lawn? Eating: yes; Blogging: Sporadically; Critiquing: ?. You can write to me at joanna@ephemeraldigest.com.
  • Books2010 December The Bristol Book Review, 27 December 2010
  • Food, DiningThis section lists all the food related items I have posted: See the ‘Ephemeral Food, Bristol’ map for all the locations http://bit.ly/cBJLWI
    August Nando’s, Not Bad Dil Se, Horfield Tantric Jazz, Gone July Source At St Nicholas Market, Breakfast Dynasty: quick and inexpensive lunch No Reservations With Anthony Bourdain Capers and City Living Wagamamas, Restaurant Review Pancakes, in Bristol Giraffe, Restaurant Review Fork 50: Restaurant Guide June Used To Be: The Market Place, Now: The Elephant Cathay Rendezvous, Restaurant Review Toptable Offers, Zen On Millennium Square Grillstock: BBQ Festival In Bristol Stoneground Cafe, Bristol Central Library Eating: yes. Blogging: sporadically; Critiquing: ? Thali Cafe, Clifton Fishers, a seafood restaurant in Clifton May Swinky’s Sexy Cupcakes Boston Tea Party, Time To Linger Turquoise, Clifton Triangle The Glassboat, Mildly Unimpressed Bath Coffee Festival, South West Tomtom coffee, London Bath, Coffee Festival Bristol Beer Factory, Cheese Taste Off The Hope u0026amp; Anchor, Bristol Bordeaux Quay u0026amp; Manos: lunch, coffee and art Folk House Cafe, Bristol April All the lunches I never had, Bristol Thai Classic, Whiteladies Rd The Lido, Bristol Duck Confit Scotch Eggs Grain Barge, Chocolate and ale March Grain Barge, Beer and Chocolate The Adam and Eve, Hidden Awayu0026hellip;
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  • Movies / TheatreThis section lists all the movie related items I have posted: August Inception, A Follow-Up Post Inception, A Review May Bad Lieutenant, a reflection Kings of Pastry, a reflection April Dogtooth, a reflection Treme, a thought Juliet and Her Romeo, a reflection March 1234, a reflection Asyle, a reflection NON-KO, a reflection MicMacs, a reflection Girls on Film at the Arnolfini Xizao (Shower), a reflection Banksy: Exit Through The Gift Shop February Ponyo, just magical Face To Face With Mark Kermode Brothers, a reflection Everybody’s Fine, a reflection Murdoch Mysteries in Bristol Girls on Film Mugabe and the White African, a reflection Precious, a reflection January Review: Lovers on the Road
  • MusicThe following section lists the posts about music: June Dot to Dot: the high, and low, lights Dot to Dot: The Crookes May Dot to Dot, The Beginning Bear Pit, Stokes Croft Streetfest April Alphabeat, Bristol Vashti Bunyan and The Cedar, reflection March The Random Family Two Door Cinema Club: Under Water Blood Red Shoes: rocking Thekla Passion Pit: … February Update: Midlake playing in Bristol January Midlake: the Courage of Others
  • RunningThe following links are to posts related to running: May Running, not so much April London Marathon, how many miles? Marathon Jitters? Donate for a chance to win Long run, 29km around Bristol March Marathon, a bit of a panic Bath Half Marathon, March 7 2010 February Taking the fun out of hard work Irritated, not damaged 5km: a nice distance
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  • June 18, 2021

    When the boycott of a boycott becomes news

    Even before the “anti-woke” GB News channel began its first broadcast, the campaign group Stop Funding Hate had started a boycott. Then the first shows began to air, the outrage started to grow on Twitter, and the calls for boycotting advertisers increased. Viewers could now identify and contact those corporations who were giving their money…

  • April 27, 2021

    The Roles of Journalism

    [First published at the following link] In Western traditions of news gathering, journalists are seen as being objective and impartial. Often they are complimented for doing investigative work or castigated for not challenging politicians enough. Ultimately, what comes across is that media consumers have some idea of what they think journalism is. When blogging platforms…

  • April 15, 2021

    A Timeline Of The Plague Year

    Available in audio at the following link: https://anchor.fm/joanna-booth/episodes/A-Timeline-Of-The-Plague-Year-euuu0r On March 23, 2020, the day that lockdown was announced, I was so nervous paying for my shopping at the supermarket that I forgot my PIN. There was a queue behind me, no masks, no separations from the till, just uncertainty. I had to leave everything at…

  • September 1, 2020

    Inspection of council accounts

    From September 1 to October 12, the Bristol City Council accounts can be questioned and are open to audit. See the following link for information: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/council-spending-performance/bristol-city-council-audited-accounts I sent in my request for invoices and reports this morning in order to assess whether the statement of accounts needed to be challenged. I am writing to request…

  • August 22, 2020

    The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

    Yoko Ogawa has won every literary award there is in her country. That’s how the novel is introduced before it begins, and it struck me as an odd thing to write. Each story stands alone. Why should my enjoyment of this story be affected by what other people think or how she is judged? But…

  • July 3, 2020

    Is the council tax reduction scheme back on the cards?

    There has been an increase of 500% in claims of the council tax reduction (CRT) scheme according to Cllr Dudd, speaking at the Cabinet meeting on 28 April 2020. Two weeks previous to that Bristol247 wrote: “Since mid-March, the applications for reduced payments have gone from an average of around 100 a week to 642…

  • July 1, 2020

    Review: The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance by Deborah Jump

    Boxing is “the only sport where you have two doctors on hand, a resuscitation team on standby, and an ambulance outside” (Roger, 63, retired boxing coach). It’s also being promoted as the sport that will help young men desist from violent crime. How can this violent sport help in preventing violent crime? I come to…

  • July 1, 2020

    Will the council be spending another £90k on monitoring mentions of the mayor on social media?

    “The Council is planning to develop additional Deliberative Democracy work in 2020/21 to further strengthen public engagement,” states the Q4 Performance Report that is going to scrutiny in July. Previous ‘democracy work’ by the council has meant the mayor paying £90k of public funds to check what people were saying about him on Twitter. I…

  • April 23, 2020

    How many deaths are acceptable?

    The following is my question to Cabinet on 28 April about the Clean Air Zone that the mayor wants to postpone: In January, young Rife journalist, Deqa Hassan wrote about the silent voices in the green movement. She talked about white liberal middle-class people dominating the discourse on the environment, and those who are absent.…

  • February 26, 2020

    Has the mayor learnt the wrong lessons from Cambridge Analytica?

      On February 19, I revealed that Bristol City Council had contracted for £90,000 with a social media company called Impact Social so they could analyse what was being said about the mayor. There are three issues with this contract: 1) the cost is very high for a time when the budget had just been cut by…

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