In a year when creamy things chucked in a bowl too often marked the meal’s end, the best dessert gong has to go to the beautiful chocolate work enclosing the gorgeous riff on rhubarb served to me at at Grantley Hall, near Rippon.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jan/01/review-of-the-year-i-was-privileged-to-eat-stupidly-well-in-2022-

The new map also restated China’s claim to almost the entire South China Sea, enclosing it in a dotted line the shape of a cow’s tongue – a territorial grab the size of which the world has rarely seen before.

Source: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/chinas-standard-map-is-a-chilling-reminder-of-its-imperial-ambitions/

They breached the border fence enclosing Gaza, killing civilians in nearbyi towns and villages and abducting others to take back to Gaza as hostages.

Source: https://interaksyon.philstar.com/videos/2023/10/12/262523/in-israel-one-woman-still-searching-for-news-of-six-missing-family-members/