Watched: Malice Season 1 ๐บ
David Duchovny and Jack Whitehall โ๏ธ
The Ashes 2025/26 first Test. Day One Stumps ๐
Well that was an all-action day of Ashes cricket. 19 wickets and 295 runs. This is not going to be a five day match.
England 172ao. Australia have lost nine wickets and still trail by 49 runs.
Andy Zaltzman - Test Match Special statistician:
This is the most wickets taken in a day of an Ashes Test since the Old Trafford Test of 1909 where both teams were all out in the same day.
Australia ๐ฆ๐บ v ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England
First Test ๐
Successfully woken up at 2am ๐ National anthems underway โฆ
Watched: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1E1, Strange New Worlds ๐บ
Season 1 finally available on a streaming service I have access to (ITVX in the UK) ๐
I enjoyed the first episode!
๐ต My top weekly artists as logged byย last.fm: Sleaford Mods (52 plays), Big Special (41), Devendra Banhart (23), Baxter Dury (20), Claude Debussy (19)
Great result, the match flew by! ๐
England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ 33-19 ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand
Englandโs last victory against the All Blacks was in 2019, their last victory in England in 2012 at Twickenham.
Excess power โก๏ธ
There are at least 21 mains power sockets in our (fairly standard double bed sized) hotel room.
- 3 above the desk/dressing table
- 5 below the desk/dressing table
- 2 by the door to the room
- 2 by each bedside table
- 2 just above a chest of drawers
- 1 in a corner of the room
- 2 behind the wall mounted television
plus at least 2 I cannot see supplying the mini-fridge and coffee machine.
Only 5 of these are being used by appliances in the room. This all seems a little excessive!
Experiencing Storm Claudia in Stratford. Itโs wet outside. Spending the whole afternoon in The White Swan bar - Fullerโs beer, wine, chips and some reading ๐โ๏ธ๐
Location check in โ At the RSC Swan Theatre to see Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, starring Adrian Lester ๐ญ
๐บ Map of area
๐ Zoom in
Complimentary Shakespeare Distillery Stratford Dry gin in our hotel room ๐
Tudor Garden inspired British Gin
Location check in โ White Swan Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon
๐บ Map of area
๐ Zoom in
Follow the Storm ๐บ
Watched: Now You See Me 2, 2016 - โ โ โ ๐ฅ
Tree cutting
Had to have some emergency tree surgery this week!
There was an tall conifer growing on our property boundary, about 20 feet from our house.
This tree had always grown leaning towards the house, but over the past few weeks there was evidence of the roots starting to move in the soil. It had to go before any windy winter storms!
It took four men a day and a half to deal with it - nearly 3 hours anchoring it, then stripping off all the branches and next cutting it in guided falls from the top downwards in roughly 8 foot trunk sections. These came down with a crash, shaking crockery and glasses in our kitchen (the nearest room to the base of the tree). I couldn’t guess what each section weighed.
Plus all the clear-up work, chipping the smaller branches and loading the logs in batches onto a trailer.
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Watched: Now You See Me, 2013 - โ โ โ ยฝ ๐ฅ
