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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

ICC Womenโ€™s Cricket World Cup 2025

First semi-final: England ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ v ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa

South Africa, batting first, have scored 319-7, including a brilliant 169 from their captain Laura Wolvaardt ๐Ÿ

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Watched: Thunderbolts*, 2025 - โ˜…โ˜…ยฝ ๐ŸŽฅ

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Some great Villa defending in the second half and nice goal by Matty Cash in the first. Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City. Good game ๐Ÿ‘ โšฝ๏ธ

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Viewing Micro.blog conversation threads in Tapestry is really useful and convenient.

Thank you @iconfactory ๐Ÿ‘

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๐ŸŽต My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Sprints (22 plays), Gary Kemp (20), George Xiaoyuan Fu (14), Miles Davis (11), Cate Le Bon (10)

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Strictly ๐Ÿ’ƒ & Pizza ๐Ÿ•

Mine was tuna, black olive, caper and jalapeรฑo. With Chianti ๐Ÿท

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Watched: A House of Dynamite, 2025 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜… ๐ŸŽฅ

Brilliant. A tense two hours flew by.

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Watched: Drag Me to Hell, 2009 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜… ๐ŸŽฅ

Warming up for Halloween with stylish, old-school horror ๐ŸŽƒ

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Watched: The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, 2023 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…ยฝ ๐ŸŽฅ

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Watched: The Last Kingdom ๐Ÿ“บ

Itโ€™s taken me nearly two years to work my way through all five seasons of The Last Kingdom (set in the 9th and 10th century British Isles). Enjoyed them all but my interest did wane slightly after the death of Alfred the Great. I still wanted to finish the storyline though.

To quote The Guardian review from 2015:

This is not a smaller-scale, less sexy, British Game of Thrones โ€“ itโ€™s proper historical drama, and itโ€™s a ton of fun

The film The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is next ๐Ÿ‘€

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Retailing ๐Ÿ›๏ธ

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That worked quite well for a first attempt. Slightly soggy bottom my only criticism ๐Ÿ˜

Served with garlic roast potatoes, some soy glazed broccoli and samphire. Sunday dinner sorted!

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I have constructed a salmon Wellington. To be baked shortly ๐ŸŸ

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Spurs 1-2 Aston Villa. Villaโ€™s season recovery continues. And a fantastic second goal! โšฝ๏ธ๐Ÿ™‚

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๐ŸŽต My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Alim Beisembayev (14 plays), Tadaaki Otaka, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales (13), Serebrier, Russian National Orchestra, Yang, Romanovsky, Chisson, Serov, Barton-Pine (10), June Christy (7), Bernstein (4)

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