๐ On the way to Birmingham
There’s a lot of World Cups happening around now. Watching the Women’s Rugby Union World Cup final NZL ๐ณ๐ฟ v ENG ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ this morning. Then there’s the Rugby League World Cups, the cricket T20 World Cup and, imminently, the FIFA football World Cup โฝ๏ธ ๐ ๐
Ikiru, 1952 - โ โ โ โ ยฝ
Watched on Friday November 11, 2022.
I get a box of vegetables delivered weekly from Riverford Organic Farmers. Included with each box is a printed newsletter from the founder Guy Singh-Watson. I found this week’s, about plastic food packaging, very informative:
๐ Superb bowling by Adil Rashid in the World Cup semi-final: 1-20 from his 4 overs
๐ India v England under way - ICC Men's T20 World Cup semi-final, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
Linkblog ๐: Oldest known written sentence discovered โ on a head-lice comb
Linkblog ๐: Lowโs Mimi Parker was a voice of hope and healing in indie rock ๐ต
Linkblog ๐: What is Mastodon, and will it replace Twitter? - New Statesman
Mastodon is not โTwitter but goodโ
๐บ Thunderbird IPA at the Rhoswenallt Inn
๐ฐ Cherry Bakewell and Americano at Delico Deli
Death on the Nile, 2022 - โ โ โ โ
Branagh makes a stylish Poirot and a stylish, enjoyable Christie adaptation. Would rank Death on the Nile above Murder on the Orient Expressย but both have made me want to read the original novels.
Linkblog ๐: Philologist Irene Vallejo: โAlexander the Greatโs library was the first step towards the internetโ
๐ต My Top weekly artists: Aphrodite’s Child (22), The Umlauts (12), Thelonious Monk (12), Dry Cleaning (11) & clipping. (5) via tweekly.fm
Broke all the rules tonight, made (and ate) a vegan Hawaiian pizza. Iโm not vegan or Hawaiian ๐
