I need another coffee ☕️

Shockingly it’s happening again. Crawley out for a pair from Starc’s 5th ball of the first over 🏏

The Ashes 2025/26, first Test, day two. Play starting 👏🏏

Watched: Malice Season 1 📺

David Duchovny and Jack Whitehall ✔️

The Ashes 2025/26 first Test. Day One Stumps 🏏

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 🇦🇺 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England

First Test 🏏

Successfully woken up at 2am 😅 National anthems underway …

Watched: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1E1, Strange New Worlds 📺

Season 1 finally available on a streaming service I have access to (ITVX in the UK) 😊

I enjoyed the first episode!

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Sleaford Mods (52 plays), Big Special (41), Devendra Banhart (23), Baxter Dury (20), Claude Debussy (19)

Great result, the match flew by! 🏉

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 33-19 🇳🇿 New Zealand

England’s last victory against the All Blacks was in 2019, their last victory in England in 2012 at Twickenham.

Excess power ⚡️

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. It’s wet outside. Spending the whole afternoon in The White Swan bar - Fuller’s beer, wine, chips and some reading 📚☔️😊

Location check in — At the RSC Swan Theatre to see Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, starring Adrian Lester 🎭


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🔎 Zoom in

Complimentary Shakespeare Distillery Stratford Dry gin in our hotel room 😀

Tudor Garden inspired British Gin

Location check in — White Swan Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon
🗺 Map of area

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Follow the Storm 🍺