It didn’t rain in Melbourne! Good match 🏏

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Rudolf Firkušný (31), Low (11), The Smashing Pumpkins (11), Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra (4) & Haitink, Concertgebouw (3) via tweekly.fm

🚗 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 🇳🇿 v ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 this morning. Then there’s the Rugby League World Cups, the cricket T20 World Cup and, imminently, the FIFA football World Cup ⚽️ 🏏 🏉

Ikiru, 1952 - ★★★★½

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:

🔗 Plastic: Recyclable does not mean recycled

🏏 Superb bowling by Adil Rashid in the World Cup semi-final: 1-20 from his 4 overs

Linkblog 🔗: Oldest known written sentence discovered – on a head-lice comb

Linkblog 🔗: Low’s Mimi Parker was a voice of hope and healing in indie rock 🎵

Linkblog 🔗: What is Mastodon, and will it replace Twitter? - New Statesman

Mastodon is not “Twitter but good”