Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 27: pompasetting — Pompasetting at the National Botanic Garden of Wales on Boxing Day, 2007 📷
Laundromat and on Bandcamp 🔗 — Three EPs. Blue, Green Red. Electronic and relaxed. Laundromat is Brighton based recording artist Toby Hayes. I know nothing more but am enjoying listening to the music. 🎵
Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 26: favourite — August 2008. First time at my favourite music festival, the Green Man Festival. Not my favourite weather. Not taken with with my favourite phone/camera, a 1.3 megapixel Vodafone 716. 🎵📷
England bowled out for 81. Achieving their lowest total in a Test in India 😢. So far in the day - less than 2 sessions - there’s been 127 runs scored and 17 wickets taken. India need 49 runs to win. Don’t think this is going to last long. 🏏
Now India open there bowling with 2 wickets in the first 3 deliveries by Axar Patel. Wow! 🏏
Joe Root bowling in the first session this morning - 5 wickets for 8 runs in 6.2 overs. His first five-wicket haul. I have been glued to watching the India v England third Test; was meant to be switching to radio coverage so I could get on with some home DIY 😉 🏏
Michael Rosen blog post on Reading for Pleasure 📚 🔗
A child
A book
A read
A chat.
This is the way
the mind grows.
Not with a test
but a tale.
He’s writing for teachers and children but I think a lot of his points are applicable to all readers.
England 112 all out yesterday, India now 125-8 after an hour of play this morning. Some impressive bowling from Joe Root, things moving quickly 😲 🏏
Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: code — Not exactly code but the 3rd century BCE Brahmi script Edicts of Ashoka did need deciphering in the 19th century. British Museum, June 2015. 📷
Gardening Diary 🌱 — 📅 24th February 2021 — Three wasabi plants I planted in May last year have exploded into activity. Wasn’t expecting such vigorous growth and flowering so early in the year, especially after/during some very cold and wet weather.
Third Test India v England - pink ball match - at Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad is about to start. England batting 🏏
Currently reading: Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel 📚
Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 24: baby — My daughter and her babies at Grandma’s house, April 2004 😄 📷
The Great British Art Tour: why is Keats at Guy’s hospital? 🔗
The Romantic poet John Keats died 200 years ago today at the young age of 25. He has long since been celebrated for works such as Ode to a Nightingale and To…
John Keats: five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death 🔗
Ode to a Nightingale (1819) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains…
