Although Losar (Tibetan New Year) is a separate affair from Lunar New Year, the two holidays overlap this year. That means it’s the perfect time to get your momo fix from Nomad in Berkeley, which features five different types of Tibetan dumplings: beef, chicken, vegetarian and sho kho (potato). All are plump, filled with savory broth and meticulously hand wrapped with a thick skin meant to cradle all of their very generous stuffings.

Nick Thomas Symonds, the shadow home secretary, said: “Not only are the measures far too slow to begin 50 days after the South African strain emerged they are also dangerously inadequate.” Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, has signalled that hotel quarantine could be extended beyond the 33 countries that are primarily in south America and southern Africa but also include the United Arab Emirates ( a major airport hub for Africa) as well as Portugal and Cape Verde. The other countries with variants include Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, United States and Vietnam. A bidding document for the hotels also acknowledged: “Given the exceptional nature of this activity the red list countries are likely to be subject to change and suppliers should be aware that flexibility around requirements is required.”Plans for harsher Scottish quarantine system in chaos after SNP fail to book extra hotel roomsPlans for Scotland to impose its own supervised quarantine regime are in chaos after it emerged that no extra hotel rooms have been secured to accommodate travellers caught by a stricter system.

It certainly possible that this was just a quick hackathon project that one developer threw together at Facebook. It may also be related to their tie in with Rockmelt, the social browser that is built on top of Chromium (a screenshot on the extension page references it). Quite frankly, it surprising this extension exists at all, given the heated relationship between the two companies.

Bella takes a walkI feel as if I probably have left out a lot of Bella Bits but I’m too fucked up to sort it out now too many places to check but here’s one I wrote today in Friday writing group. We were given an image of a female in a red cloak and a tree, maybe in a park, a bit abstract. I’d thought that my character Paul, who’d featured in the novel with Bella when they were both teenagers, might have grown into the non binary detective that someone else has created for an ongoing shared thing it just felt right.