Table Talk

Home-school Hell

Claudia Savage-Gore is locked down with lesson plans, three kids – and no cleaner

The deer hunter

Patrick Galbraith tries to bag a muntjac

Fun runs don’t exist

Nick Cohen won’t be happy until he doesn’t enjoy his daily ordeal

Requiem for a bad meal

Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin

Besieged by abundance

Enliven dull staples with fresh vegetables says Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Left on the rail

Hannah Betts frets about a fashion industry in pandemic deep freeze

All aboard!

Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways

Green shoots

Hephzibah Anderson heads for the allotment

Opening gambits

Christopher North witnesses the start of the bullfighting season

Another country

Fiona Duncan’s post-Covid-19 hotel wish list