My radio just switched from cricket to The Shipping Forecast 🌧️ 🚢 🏏

🔗 Tim Dowling: is this a hangover – or just what being 60 feels like?

Is this what it’s like from now on?

Lusco Fusco 🍷

Currently reading: Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket by Stefan Szymanski 📚🏏

🏏 England declare half an hour before the end of play on day one of the first Ashes Test. Ambitious cricket.

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The sun rises at Edgbaston ahead of the opening day of the #Ashes. #BBCCricket pic.twitter.com/yz8iHayJ0U

— Test Match Special (@bbctms) June 16, 2023

🔗 Extreme websites peddle conspiracies, but what about the mainstream outlets that do it too?

Taking on misinformation in a real way would require scrutinising our biggest media institutions – but it would mean picking a fight with sharks, rather than minnows, even if it would take us far closer to the actual truth.

Finished reading: The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer 📚

🍺 Rhoswenallt Inn for a pint of Glamorgan Bitter

Synchronic, 2019 - ★★★

Watched on Monday June 12, 2023.

🥕 Making carrot top pesto

Just the two of us for dinner tonight. Not sure which two. 🐈

♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Lankum (12), Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood (6), Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve (6), Radiohead (4) & Roger Waters (4) from the no longer functioning @tweeklyfm 😔

Nephew and son, nephew and daughter

Farm party 🎉