Playing cribbage

Early morning walk whilst it’s cool

FIFA Women’s World Cup Final 2023 ⚽ - Spain 🇪🇸 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England

World Cup Final it is then ⚽️🏆👏

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England - Rugby World Cup warm-up match.

China 🇨🇳 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England very soon. Still a possibility England won’t progress 😬 🏆

England win the Test 🙂 And draw the Ashes Series 2-2 🙁 Stuart Broad’s final game before retirement ☹️ But he takes the final two wickets to win the match 👏

Ashes coming to a tense conclusion

Cricket delayed, watching Canada 🇨🇦 v 🇦🇺 Australia World Cup match ⚽️ 🏆

Final Ashes Test

Raining very heavily during the Canada v Ireland match in Perth 🌧️

Breakfast while watching the second half of Japan v Costa Rica ⚽️

Looks like I’ll be watching some of the France v Jamaica FIFAWWC match whilst the weather makes its mind up in Manchester ⚽🏆 🏏

Haiti came close to earning a draw in that entertaining match 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇭🇹⚽️

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England v Haiti 🇭🇹

189 for Zak Crawley on Day 2 of the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford, SR 104 👏

Pie, baked potato and peas for tea 😋

Alcaraz v Djokovic 🎾

Women’s Ashes Series match - Australia bat first against England in crucial second ODI

Anyone for tennis? Ons Jabeur v Marketa Vondrousova in the Wimbledon women's singles final.

Ashes: Day one, third Test, Headingley

Asher’s Whisky Fruit Cake and coffee

1st Ashes Test approaching an end. Outcome still very uncertain.

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

Rhoswenallt Inn for a pint of Glamorgan Bitter

Making carrot top pesto

On our way to my nephew’s 18th birthday party

Wiper and True Heading Home Mild at the Hatchet Inn, Bristol

Lots of car travelling this evening being saved by the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC Radio 6 🎵

Watching the FA Cup Final with Titanic Brewery Plum Porter 🍺⚽️

Butty Bach at the Boot Inn, Sutton Coldfield

Double century for Ollie Pope just after tea. Then he’s out stumped for 205. And England declare on 524-4. All happening.

Pope has reached his century and Duckett out on 182 at Lord’s today. Brilliant partnership 👏

England v Ireland Test match. Now the summer has started.

Lankum - The Livelong Day

Berlioz - Harold in Italy

Making soda bread

Live Premier League Final Day 📺

Watching 📺 Vitality Blast T20 Somerset v Hampshire

On our way to The Bunch of Grapes 🍺

Sunny Eurovision Saturday

Yet Another May Bank Holiday

May Day

Haven’t really watched snooker since the Steve Davis era of the 1980s but am finding this year’s World Championship semi-finals quite gripping.

Picard - The Last Generation S3, E10 📺

Just booked tickets to see Stornoway in October. Their first tour in over 6 years.

Early night 😞 Up at 6 to get to airport asap 😢

Beer by a fountain

Espresso at Leitaria Académica

Manteigaria Nata

Very hot in the TimeOut Market Hall. Not staying!

Travelling from London to Bristol

Departing for a week of travels

Importing my Twitter archive to my Micro.blog

04:01 Playing darts

Roasting vegetables

Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd

Chelsea v Aston Villa, Watkins scores after 18’ 👏

The Rhoswenallt Inn, pint of Glamorgan Brewing Co Thunderbird IPA

The IPL begins …

Dare Valley Country Park

Walking and photographing

Cardiff bound

Picard - Imposters S3, E5 📺

It is very windy this morning. Have been re-attaching some roofing felt to our garage roof.

Baking a Camembert

England v France

Picard - No Win Scenario S3, E4 📺

Breakfast at Hotel Indigo, Cardiff

Walking in Aberdare Park

Time for a trim. Hair and beard.

Saturday night train back to Aberdare. Never quiet 😊

Escaped an Escape Room with 38 seconds to spare

Train to Cardiff

Picard - Seventeen Seconds S3, E3. I’m enjoying the way this series is unfolding 📺

Morning walk round Dare Valley Country Park. It’s starting to rain 😔

Dry Cleaning at Tramshed Cardiff

Australia win the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final by 19 runs

Innings interval - run chase for South Africa is definitely not out of reach

ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final is underway - Australia v South Africa, Australia batting first

Wales v England

Cappuccino and panini at Delico Deli

Dramatic and close semi-final. South Africa win by 6 runs and get to the World Cup final for the first time 👏

Some great batting by South Africa. Not an easy target for England to chase

Women's T20 World Cup - second semi-final starting in about 20 minutes, England v South Africa, South Africa batting first

Picard - Disengage S3, E2 📺

Algiers - Shook

Women's T20 World Cup - semi-final about to start, Australia v India, Australia batting first

Flat white at St Elvan’s Church

Beginning Picard - Season 3 📺

Walking

Cycling

Double espresso

England scoring quickly chasing down 135

Cake Cartel, a hazelnut stout by BrewDog

Women’s T20 World Cup - West Indies v England

Opening match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup is just starting - SA v SL at Newlands, Cape Town

Reading in the winter sun.

De-icing. Frosty again. That’s what clear skies do.

South Africa v England (3rd ODI). England innings complete - that was a great recovery from losing early wickets.

South Africa v England (3rd ODI) in Kimberley. England batting first, not off to an auspicious start: 15-3 after 7 overs.

On a slightly breezy walk.

Impressive run chase by South Africa to beat England’s 342 in the ODI. Good match.

South Africa v England (2nd ODI) is my Sunday afternoon viewing 📺

South Africa v England (1st ODI) coming to a close finish

Inspector Morse : Deceived by Flight

🙏 Time Machine

Sadly in Merthyr Retail Park

Motorwaying to Bristol to pick up my daughter and have a late lunch in Clifton.

Tinkering with web design (again) 🕸️

Preparing bread

Early morning Bank Holiday of course

Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Aston Villa. I enjoyed that.

New Year’s Day football Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa

Tacos at Wahaca

Mince pie and flat white for breakfast. Preparing for Xmas shopping ☕️

The Matrix Resurrections

Very late breakfast time

On the way to Birmingham

Morocco 🇲🇦 - superb, the first team from Africa to reach the World Cup semi-finals.

Incident packed World Cup quarter-final between Netherlands and Argentina. Going to penalties.

Into the loft 🔦

Trying out the Vivaldi browser

Wow! Morocco 🇲🇦 into the quarter-finals. Impressive penalty shootout.

World Cup extra time. Morocco 🇲🇦 getting some good chances against Spain 🇪🇸

Making rice pudding 😋

Walking the Line

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published OnThisDay, 24th November 1859 📚

England v Iran

Banks’s Mild in The Commercial Rooms, Bristol

Good morning from Bristol

Joyful Day by Wiper And True microbrewery at The Hatchet Inn, Bristol

About to start my first Escape Room

From Birmingham to Derby

2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Final – England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Pakistan 🇵🇰

2-4-6-8 Motorway

On the way to Birmingham

India v England under way - ICC Men's T20 World Cup semi-final, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide 🇮🇳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Thunderbird IPA at the Rhoswenallt Inn

Cherry Bakewell and Americano at Delico Deli

Wales v New Zealand

A cup of sencha tea

England v New Zealand - game on, it’s not raining in Brisbane, it definitely is here in Wales this morning 🌧️

Wye Valley Butty Bach

Pub lunch!

Delico Deli for jacket potato with salad and a cappuccino

Morning walk in Dare Valley

Listening to Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar - one of my favourite BBC Radio 4 comedy shows returns.

On the way to Bristol

Time for England v Afghanistan in the T20 World Cup

Making hummus

And Zimbabwe beat Scotland. Now looking forward to England's opening World Cup game against Afghanistan tomorrow.

Ireland knock West Indies out of the Men's T20 World Cup and proceed to the Super 12 stage.

Watching Aston Villa v Chelsea 📺

Autumn Saturday night so there's no option in our household … Strictly Come Dancing 📺

Baking bread rolls for breakfast/brunch

Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

10 mile indoor cycle workout

Browsing the Micro.blog A Day in the Life 2022

Denise and I celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary today 🥰

Sunday dinner: spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino. Followed Rachel Roddy's guidance from 'Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome'.

Weather is so good, have decided to BBQ in the garden.

Sweeping leaves (and acorns) 🍂

Americano and cherry bakewell at Delico Deli, Aberdare.

More Pakistan v England T20 cricket. This series is coming thick and fast.

Dare Valley Country Park

Watching England play Pakistan in the fifth of seven T20 matches.

A short walk

The Great British Bake Off

First contact from status.lol