Skiathos mirror 2017

Skiathos mirror 2019

A short walk - Achladias to Skiathos Town

Vasilias Beach, Skiathos

Currently reading: Circe by Madeline Miller 📚

Skiathos Town Cat

Currently reading: Dr James Barry - A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Perez & Jeremy Dronfield 📚

Currently reading: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris 📚

Matthew Bourne’s ballet Romeo and Juliet at Wales Millennium Centre (this was the interval set piece, not the performance itself). Great dance, interesting and very dark setting.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - South Africa v Afghanistan at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. Imran Tahir (RSA) and Rashid Khan (AFG) bowling. Rain interruptions, but RSA win. 🏏

ICC Cricket World Cup warm-up match at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff - Bangladesh v India. First photo is of MS Dhoni and KL Rahul batting; both went on to score centuries in India’s innings of 359 🏏

Currently reading: A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes 📚

Some highlights of Merthyr Rising Festival 🎵 this weekend - Attila the Stockbroker and Bedface

The Neville Staple Band and Cast

🔖 Less whaling in Moby Dick! - Tom Gauld on fan petitions – cartoon

A crowdfunding appeal is bringing readers, authors and publishers together to help keep the copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the judge in the landmark obscenity trial in the UK. 📚

Donate via gofundme http://gf.me/u/szmpa8

The immortal Gong at The Globe, Cardiff, Thursday 23rd May 2019 🎵

Informative and interesting article on The Quietus - 🔖 The Strange World Of…Gong - including a selection of videos. And I’m going to see Gong at the The Globe, Cardiff on Thursday 😀 🎵

🔖 Don’t talk about ‘food poverty’ – it’s just poverty

Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion in a penalty shootout to reach the Championship play-off final for the second successive season.

Aston Villa win 4-3 on penalties ⚽️

Currently reading: The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi 📚

A day to easily get lost in sport - England v Pakistan ODI 🏏, Aston Villa v West Bromwich Albion Championship play-off semi-final ⚽️ and Leinster v Saracens Heineken Champions Cup final 🏉.

Currently reading: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman 📚

Overgrown

Views from the square during the Glamorgan v Surrey lunch interval. Lukas Carey of Glamorgan didn’t keep still for the panorama shot :) 🏏

Royal London One-Day Cup - Glamorgan v Surrey at Sophia Gardens. Gareth Batty bowling to Billy Root, who went on to get a career-best unbeaten 113 in Glamorgan’s innings. 🏏

Went to see Suede at The Great Hall, Cardiff University Students’ Union last night 🎵. They were amazingly good, an absolutely electric gig from start to finish. I saw Suede twice in the 1990s with exactly the same lineup of Brett Anderson, Richard Oakes, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert and Neil Codling. Last night’s performance was as good as, if not better than, those earlier days.

Great support from BC Camplight (aka Brian Christinzio).

The Suede setlist was

• As One
  
• My Insatiable One
  
• Outsiders
  
• We Are the Pigs
  
• So Young
  
• Metal Mickey
  
• New Generation
  
• Tides
  
• She’s Not Dead
  
• Stay Together (Brett with Richard acoustic)
  
• The Drowners
  
• It Starts and Ends With You
  
• Indian Strings
  
• Trash
  
• Animal Nitrate
  
• Another No One (Brett solo acoustic)
  
• Beyond the Outskirts
  
• The Invisibles
  
• Flytipping
  
• Beautiful Ones (encore)
  
• Life Is Golden (encore)