First over: Stuart Broad removes David Warner - for the 16th time in Tests - for 4 🏏
🏏 Ashes: Day one, third Test, Headingley
This is the toad who lives in my greenhouse 🐸
Seems like a very strange (sometimes very hot) place for a toad to want to live in but it’s been there for well over three months now. I have to be very careful when hoeing between the plants because it’s often completely buried in a well-camouflaged burrow which occasionally moves location.
I’ve been trying to get a better photograph but it’s fairly timid and makes a dash for cover whenever it notices me 😄
Book 📚 and Butty Bach 🍺 in Hay
Gateway
Location check in 🗺 — one night at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. Superb Wye Valley Smokery kippers served for breakfast 🐟
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Hay-on-Wye 📚
Location check in 🗺 — Blue Boar, Hay-on-Wye for a pint of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, one of my favourite beers 🍺
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South Wales Fire Service helicopter carrying water has been repeatedly flying back and forth over our house all day today (still going now at 7pm and I think I first saw it about 8am).
According to Natural Resources Wales there’s a wildfire in Gethin Forest between Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, just over the side of the valley from us 🔥😟
Very dramatic final day in the 2nd Ashes Test 🏏
♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: The Kinks (15), Jonathan Wilson (3), Sparks (3), Jonathan Russell (2) & Paul Beaubrun (2) via @tweeklyfm
🔗 ‘Am I still any good? Have I still got it?’: PJ Harvey on doubt, desire and deepest, darkest Dorset
Harvey didn’t intend to make a new album: it crept up on her …
Looking forward to the release of this album next week 🎵
Burger buns baked. Unusually uniform shape and size for my baking 🍔
Location check in 🗺 — Delico Deli, Aberdare for tuna melt panini and cappuccino ☕️
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🔗 ‘A nuclear reactor of music’: the story of Simple Minds’ classic album Empires and Dance 🎵
Sustaining an overpowering and unrelenting mood, music, voice and words perfectly in lockstep, Empires and Dance is a Mitteleuropean psychodrama.
