New page up at my place for the One-Day Cup.

Way beyond 'spectacular'.

Happy Monday! Here are two lovely little owls decorating an ancient Greek ceramic drinking cup made in Athens around 2,500 years ago! 🦉❤️ Louvre, Paris 📷 by me #Archaeology

I would pay a monthly subscription fee for this kind of thing, give me the Meta glasses force field pls

I think my Mum may slightly exaggerate the idea that "Kevin Keegan" were among my earliest words. He was certainly the one footballer who every 5 year old had heard of at the end of the 1970s

Very sad news.

Do read this.

La obra de arte que es nuestra selección. España, que bien te ves. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇪🇸

@gemmyfromtheblock.bsky.social I couldn’t reply to your post, but I know a lot of people assume that. Not much I can do to convince them otherwise, but in the scheme of things it doesn’t really matter. Though I must say I think the idea of paying someone to babble on my behalf is bonkers!

Folks complaining the actors in The Odyssey don't look Ancient Greek are oddly nostalgic for the era when John Wayne was apparently the most qualified Mongolian on Earth.

love them or loathe them, there's one thing you can't deny about the Argentinian football team: they're a bunch of cunts

EUROPE UNDEFEATED, THE AMERICAS IN THE MUD, ALEXA PLAY ODE TO JOY

Spanish Triumph: El Triunfo de Baco, painted c 1629 for Spanish King Philip IV, by Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), great artist of Spanish Golden Age, influenced Goya, Sargent, Picasso. Museo del Prado

If you're in East / NE London and want some loveliness in your life... These girls are ready for a forever family.

Waiting in the sun for the gates to open, MCC v Yorkshire, Lord's, May 2nd 1953. Rain delayed the start by three hours and then MCC were skittled for 87. The sporting world's attention was at Wembley where Blackpool beat Bolton 4-3 in the Matthews final

Painting created by Brenda Marshall c.1958 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live. Her work explores her distress & traumatic family relationships, many feature these organic shapes, with lone women adrift or under threat in nightmarish psychedelic landscapes

Do read this. Highly recommended.

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

Hello. I see you are enjoying ice cream. I also would like to enjoy ice cream

Morning! If you like colourful prints, brutalist buildings and vinyl we might get on. Everything is designed in my Manchester studio and made in the UK. If you like what I do, a repost would be ace. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

A sad day for cricket with the loss of a genuine great. Garry Sobers toasts the crowd after West Indies' crushing innings and 226 runs win at Lord's on August 27th 1973. Sobers signed off his last Test in England with 150* and six catches (Patrick Eagar)

A publicity picture of Garry Sobers taken at Lord's at the start of West Indies' 1963 tour of England. In the five Tests Sobers scored 322 runs at 40.25 and took 20 wickets at 28.55. On his five tours of England he scored 1820 runs at 53.53 and took 62 wickets at 31.58

This is quite exceptional, even by Sarah Kendzior's standards. Do read it.

Master of shadows: Caravaggio, influential Italian Baroque artist, died #OTD 1610; used chiaroscuro to heighten dramatic tension in his Supper at Emmaus, painted in 1601. National Gallery London

Fleeting pleasures: Embarkation for Cythera, 1717, by Antoine Watteau, French artist who heralded Rococo style & defined genre of fête galante, with scenes of elegant dalliance in poetic, often autumnal landscapes; died #OTD 1721. ALT Musée du Louvre

With the ongoing destruction of our economy and social fabric this poster is starting to look rather optimistic.

Len Hutton returns to the pavilion at lunch soon after reaching his 100th hundred, Surrey v Yorkshire, The Oval, July 16th 1951. More than 15,000 turned out on a Monday to see Hutton, 61* overnight, reach the landmark

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WAAAH! I can't believe I'm typing this - but I have a book contract for a non-fiction book for a general audience with @brisunipress.bsky.social to challenge damaging rhetoric about immigration and welfare, arguing that xenophobic law-making goes hand-in-hand with punishing the poor and hurts us all

...the sense of everything being a bit of a racket. For example: Dart Charge: tried to pay £3.50 (twice) online within deadline. The UK gov website wouldn't accept UK Visa or MasterCard. Phoned and was told no trace of vehicle crossing so couldn't pay. Now told I'm getting Penalty Notices for £35.

Drove to Scotland and back. Some random observations: *UK roads appalling. *British drivers bizarrely aggressive to a French-plated car. *Almost no insects on windscreen. *Petrol cheaper than in France. *Hotels charging £25 supplement for a dog in a tiny room. And finally...

Should @andyburnham appoint a diaspora minister? Since Brexit British citizens abroad but also globally find it difficult to deal with Home Office - as per the hundreds of stories I have done in past years .

FOUR days of men's cricket at home between now, July 16, and August 27. The height of the summer when the kids are off and people are looking for things to do Utterly ridiculous. No way to grow a sport.

The queue for the Mobile Library yesterday 🐈‍⬛️🐈

In a world of Andrew Tates, be a Jude Bellingham.

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[boldly] I just don't think the British government needs to have Shabana Mahmood in it, I think we managed fine without her and we can just keep going without her, it's fine, Andy Burnham doesn't need to find a space for her in cabinet, there are other MPs

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This is some bullshit. And a ridiculous format for a tournament.

The Flight-Lieutenant RM Mitchell, RAAF 120 Sqn, was Australian pilot Richard Menzies Mitchell (407092); he was torpedoed on a boat to the UK, took a lifeboat to Africa & was captured by the Vichy French before escaping from POW camp. He listed cricket in his interest in his biographical details!

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The foundation act of the Royal Library of Brussels. Signed by King Philip II in 1559 who decreed the countless manuscripts gathered by his predecessors should be centralised at the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels. The collection is still one of the finest in Europe.

would v much be interested in filling my East London sports pub (Stratford) with women/nb/queer people for the next few World Cup games if anyone would be interested in our currently quite free table ressies (fiver per four seats, goes to CALM charity)

A lovely shot of the view from the scorers box in the Grandstand at Lord's, August 1946. The phone was to enable contact with the scorebox and the printing office below them. The printing office boasted at producing cards up to the fall of the last wicket (Picture Post)

Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum September Song, composer Kurt Weill