Table Talk

Midnight spice

Christopher Pincher is thankful for the South Australian vineyards

A real show-stopper

Thomas Woodham-Smith is forced to pack up and go home

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