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The way to man's heart is through his stomach, so the saying goes and I often express my love through preparing delicious meals for my loved ones.  For Valentine's Day, why not prepare one of the simplest dishes I learnt last year during the lockdown? It's beef short ribs cooked in the oven for five hours. The preparation is simple but it yields one of the most delicious meals. It's from a book by the French chef Stephane Reynaud.  Everything is cooked in one pan, so this recipe is also kind to whoever has to do the washing up. Well, you may have other things in mind after this dinner. The ingredient list is also short: 1.2 kg beef short ribs for 4 people 4 red onions, quartered and included in its skin, or peeled and chopped roughly 8 new potatoes, or King Edwards also fine 3 tablespoons of tomato puree 1 tablespoon honey (or maple syrup) 3 tablespoons soy sauce 80g butter Pepper Preheat the oven to 120 degrees Celcius. Peel and chop the onions and clean the potatoes. ...

Today's challenge is to write the word LOVE in any material and here's what I did. I was going to write something about food as an expression of love, but that's not what the instruction says. Here's the word LOVE in my favourite things: pens and books.

We welcome a new, temporary exhibition which opens today at Portsmouth Guildhall and is available until 8th January 2018. The exhibition, created by Dave Allen and hosted by the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, marks the 50th anniversary of the so-called ‘Summer of Love’ with a focus on Portsmouth in the late 1960s and the legacy of those interesting times. The familiar histories tell tales of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, swinging London and young people with flowers in their hair and bells round their necks, traveling in their thousands to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district to join the hippies there. The histories of those times also tell us that after the explosion of colour and new sounds of 1967, the following year’s revolutionary spirit became more political and less peaceful, leading to some terrible events in the immediate aftermath such as Altamont, Manson and Kent State. Dave Allen’s book, Autumn of Love: How the Swinging Sixties & the C...