ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025

First semi-final: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇿🇦 South Africa

South Africa, batting first, have scored 319-7, including a brilliant 169 from their captain Laura Wolvaardt 🏏

Watched: Thunderbolts*, 2025 - ★★½ 🎥

Some great Villa defending in the second half and nice goal by Matty Cash in the first. Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City. Good game 👏 ⚽️

Viewing Micro.blog conversation threads in Tapestry is really useful and convenient.

Thank you @iconfactory 👏

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Sprints (22 plays), Gary Kemp (20), George Xiaoyuan Fu (14), Miles Davis (11), Cate Le Bon (10)

Strictly 💃 & Pizza 🍕

Mine was tuna, black olive, caper and jalapeño. With Chianti 🍷

Watched: A House of Dynamite, 2025 - ★★★★★ 🎥

Brilliant. A tense two hours flew by.

Watched: Drag Me to Hell, 2009 - ★★★★ 🎥

Warming up for Halloween with stylish, old-school horror 🎃

Watched: The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die, 2023 - ★★★½ 🎥

Watched: The Last Kingdom 📺

It’s taken me nearly two years to work my way through all five seasons of The Last Kingdom (set in the 9th and 10th century British Isles). Enjoyed them all but my interest did wane slightly after the death of Alfred the Great. I still wanted to finish the storyline though.

To quote The Guardian review from 2015:

This is not a smaller-scale, less sexy, British Game of Thrones – it’s proper historical drama, and it’s a ton of fun

The film The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is next 👀