And a half-century for Jofra Archer 😮👏 50 from 97. His first Test 50.

Ben Stokes gets his half-century - off 159 balls

Australia v England - 3rd Test, Day 3 🏏 Stokes and Archer still batting …

Watched: Troy, 2004 - ★★★★ 🎥

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (76 plays), clipping. (31), Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollmann & Marilyn Horne (26), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (18), mitropoulos (14)

BBC Hoddinott Hall 🎵 Jaime Martín, BBC National Orchestra of Wales Elizaveta Ivanova, flute Greig Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Nielsen Flute Concerto 
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (selections from)

Watching my nephew (red skull cap) playing rugby in the Principality Stadium - Road to Principality: Schools and Dewar Shield Finals Day 🏉 Unfortunately we had tickets to a concert in the Wales Millennium Centre tonight so couldn’t attend - reduced to watching the match on a phone in the bar 🍷

Great news as Asa Tribe commits to Glamorgan for the next three seasons. We're only just getting started!! glamorgancricket.com/news/tribe-c... #OhGlammyGlammy

Watched: The Roses, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥

Watched: West Side Story, 2021 - ★★★★ 🎥

Jalfrezi 🌶️ Ashes 🏏 breakfast, with hash browns

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), The Utopia Strong (14), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA (12), Petrenko, Vasily (3)

Now going to listen to a couple of cricket podcasts, which is going to depress the mood. The episode title of the first is Darkness Descends 🙉

Great pressure, great goal from Villa to take the last minute win. Fantastic game 👏⚽️

Watching the second half after catching up with an hour’s sleep. At least Villa v Arsenal is a good, competitive game. A goal apiece at the moment ⚽️

Disappointing Ashes 🏏 viewing this morning, dare I watch Aston Villa v Arsenal ⚽️ ?

The football World Cup 2026 Draw is on TV now for 2 hours 😮⚽️

🔗 Three-year-old chess prodigy becomes youngest player to earn official rating ♟️ "Kushwaha defeated three rated players in events across his state and other parts of the country to secure his record-breaking status."

All action in the first overs. Mitchell Starc is England’s nemesis 🏏

The Ashes, 2nd Test at The Gabba 🏏 Large coffee ☕️, small whisky 🥃

Another exciting Premier League match tonight. Brighton 3-4 Aston Villa ⚽️ Villa, after being 2 goals down, then 2 goals up, survive a late Brighton resurgence 👏

Fulham v Manchester City match tonight is very eventful ⚽️

Watched: It’s What’s Inside, 2024 - ★★★ 🎥

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Big Special (29 plays), George Xiaoyuan Fu (19), The Utopia Strong (17), sombr (12), Primal Scream (11)

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 v 🇿🇦 South Africa 🏉 Slightly amusing 🫤

At the Donald Gordon Theatre to see To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Richard Coyle as Atticus Finch

Location check in — Wales Millennium Centre 🎭 🗺 Map of area

Watched: The Fantastic 4: First Steps, 2025 - ★★★½ 🎥

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Deathline (22 plays), Fretwork & Silas Wollston (22), Primal Scream (19), Mitropoulos (11), Misconstruity (10)

Century for Travis Head off 69 balls 👏👏👏🏏 Australia running away with this at a rapid pace. Probably no early wake up tomorrow!

England innings quickly over again. Tea taken. Australia set a target of 205 to win the first Test. A lot now down to the England bowlers 🏏

I need another coffee ☕️

Shockingly it’s happening again. Crawley out for a pair from Starc’s 5th ball of the first over 🏏

The Ashes 2025/26, first Test, day two. Play starting 👏🏏

Watched: Malice Season 1 📺 David Duchovny and Jack Whitehall ✔️

The Ashes 2025/26 first Test. Day One Stumps 🏏 Well that was an all-action day of Ashes cricket. 19 wickets and 295 runs. This is not going to be a five day match. England 172ao. Australia have lost nine wickets and still trail by 49... https://thedimpau.se/2025/11/21/the-ashes-first-test-day.html

Australia 🇦🇺 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England First Test 🏏 Successfully woken up at 2am 😅 National anthems underway …

Watched: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1E1, Strange New Worlds 📺 Season 1 finally available on a streaming service I have access to (ITVX in the UK) 😊 I enjoyed the first episode!

England have unveiled a 12-strong squad for the first Men's Ashes Test - but have kept their options open in Perth | ✍️ @georgedobell.bsky.social

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Sleaford Mods (52 plays), Big Special (41), Devendra Banhart (23), Baxter Dury (20), Claude Debussy (19)

Great result, the match flew by! 🏉 England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 33-19 🇳🇿 New Zealand England’s last victory against the All Blacks was in 2019, their last victory in England in 2012 at Twickenham.

Excess power ⚡️: https://thedimpau.se/2025/11/14/excess-power.html

Experiencing Storm Claudia in Stratford. It’s wet outside. Spending the whole afternoon in The White Swan bar - Fuller’s beer, wine, chips and some reading 📚☔️😊

Location check in — At the RSC Swan Theatre to see Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, starring Adrian Lester 🎭🗺 Map of area

Complimentary Shakespeare Distillery Stratford Dry gin in our hotel room 😀 "Tudor Garden inspired British Gin"

Location check in — White Swan Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon🗺 Map of area

Follow the Storm 🍺: https://thedimpau.se/2025/11/13/follow-the-storm.html

Watched: Now You See Me 2, 2016 - ★★★ 🎥

Tree cutting: https://thedimpau.se/2025/11/12/tree-cutting.html

Watched: Now You See Me, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥