Finished reading: Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europeβs Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis π
Reducing a tomato glut π
Checked in at Yr Ieuan Ap Iago (Wetherspoon). Only because the Rhoswenallt was full π‘
Checked in at Court Vean
Chris Woakes gets a well deserved century against India at Lordβs. Woakes now gets his name on the batting and bowling Honours Boards β quite a select few achieve that. Jonny Bairstow unlucky not to get his hundred. A good dayβs cricket for England after a faltering start. π
I have got to try and make this β Manousheh: the Lebanese breakfast pizza that stole my heart
My first ever Japanese whisky (bottle started a few weeks ago, not tonight!) - as a long-time consumer of Scottish whiskies, Iβm very impressed.
K. T. Tunstall π΅
Edit after the event, when I wasn’t watching the bands:
K. T. Tunstall was supporting
The Pretenders and
Simple Minds
Checked in at Cyfarthfa Castle. Simple Minds, Pretenders & K. T. Tunstall π΅
One of our cats appears to have lost her front legs β the other is fine!


Englandβs 1000th test match since 1877 - won against India by 31 runs in just over 3 days. Fascinating, thrilling and tense match where the outcome was never certain and both sides could have won. π
Lovely sunny breakfast this morning - going to be another hot weekend I think π
The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born On This Day in 1792 - The Later Romantics
Meschede makes 77 as Glamorgan win a thriller by two runs π
Couple of shots of the River Taff taken whilst walking back into Cardiff from the cricket at Sophia Gardens.
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