Next up: the Ashes! Here’s a desktop background of the England squad for you.

A really enjoyable final round of county championship games, which, after two weeks of draws, all ended in results! ashestourist.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/c...

@kevinhowells.bsky.social You’ve been an absolute stalwart this season, thanks for all the brilliant cricket coverage.

Durham are relegated. They lose by an innings and 43 runs. That was shocking! Rhodes is out LBW for 6 to Hill. They lasted 44.5 overs. Hampshire will play in division one again next season. Their players and fans can now celebrate. That was truly awful from Durham. Winter well, as they say.

On the plus side, I still get to go to the Rose Bowl to watch Somerset or Surrey next year, and there’s a chance Durham might play in Cheltenham, which is a fixture I’d love to attend.

@jonathandoidge.bsky.social A disappointing end for Durham, but thanks for the great commentary. Have a wonderful time in Australia!

@martycricket.bsky.social A disappointing end to the season, but that you for many hours of excellent commentary. Winter well and I look forward to hearing you next spring.

C’mon ump, it’s pitch black at Headingley now! #yorkvdur 🏏

@martycricket.bsky.social Hampshire have lost!

As a Durham fan, I’ve got the Hampshire v Surrey game on this morning - it’s the crucial one right now. 🏏

Today's County Championship Division 2 live streams Gla v Lan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXeA... Ken v Der: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuvU... Mid v Glo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4YP... Nor v Lei: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6HM...

Today's County Championship Division 1 live streams Ess v Som: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBjn... Ham v Sur: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LhX... Not v War: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zntm... Wor v Sus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtfK... Yor v Dur: www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jM...

@martycricket.bsky.social Morning! I was supposed to be going on a mums and babies hike today, but I’ve got a cold so I’m staying at home and listening to the cricket all day instead. Only two more days of this - how am I going to cope without county cricket for six months?!?

Link to my round-up of last week’s county cricket: ashestourist.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/c...

I'd rather buy a program for 100€ than subscribe to it for 1€ a month.

@martycricket.bsky.social The 100 was supposed to get more women into cricket, because women got confused by overs because we couldn’t count to 6. Turns out, women could count to 6 after all.

@martycricket.bsky.social September’s alright, but October is the worst. "October is a melancholy month. For the truly dedicated county cricket follower, it's when he discovers his wife left him in May." (Can’t remember who this quote is by!)

If you think you’re *not* looking for a podcast about ridiculous Ashes series, you’re wrong and what are you doing with your life?

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

Somebody (probably Marina Hyde) is already penning an opinion piece on how this demonstrates the lack of civility in British political discourse.

I'm German. I grew up without children's rhymes, folk songs, traditions, because they were hijacked by fascists. They took my country's culture & used it to rally people behind them, redefined all symbols of home to serve their cult. Nationalists stole my heritage. Don't let fanatics steal yours.

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

My round-up of last week’s county championship games and the last few rounds of the women’s one day cup: ashestourist.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/c...

I wonder how many that sing along with Jerusalem know that Parry was a good friend of Millicent Fawcett and a supporter of the suffragists. The orchestral version was first peformed at a suffrage demonstration concert in 1918, and he passed the copyright onto the suffrage societies then to the WI

Maybe you shouldn't have added a fourth format then! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Somerset! La la la!

One day I’m going to go to T20 finals day just for the between-games karaoke.

Absolutely this. Pick any Crusade. Total incompetence and folly, the lot of them. I’m reading Villehardouin on the 4th Crusade right now and however bad you think the leadership was, it’s worse. Shockingly poor. Oh and the Simons de Montfort (junior and senior) can get in the sea, what awful men

I liked the Test Match Sofa in-joke of Luke Wright Threw You from @norcrosscricket.bsky.social on BBC.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

@martycricket.bsky.social Surprised but pleased to hear commentary when I turned the radio on - I expected it to be raining all day! I’m currently trying to catch up on the cricket in between a Mum and Baby Yoga class and Baby Gymnastics.

What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?

Total fail on this post. Replace “Chelmsford” with “Cheltenham” (it’s unlikely both Durham and Essex are going down) Replace “coonty” with “county”.

One silver lining if Durham were relegated is that they’d have a chance of playing at Chelmsford. That’s another ground I’d love to visit. #coontychampionship

Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville interrupted a red-carpet interview with a plea to stop Israel’s military assault on Gaza City. Bonneville was speaking to ITV News ⤵️

Ah, the vibrant city of To Be Confirmed. The most magical place in all of Canada.

You especially cannot tell those communities currently being attacked by Labour that they should still vote for Labour because it will be worse under Reform. You are talking about the difference between the hangman and the firing squad for many. When they see an alternative they will take it. 22/

If, as seems likely at this stage, to use the technical terminology, Labour gets its arse handed to them by Reform at the next election, it will not be the fault of voters who moved to more progressive parties, or the media, it's all on Labour and their own rhetoric and policies. No-one else. 21/

Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?

At this point Labour have a free rein to be as woke and hard-left as they like because they’ll be accused of it anyway. It’s an amazing opportunity that they will entirely fail to take advantage of.

Telling it like it is, and cutting through.

The persistent idea that something can only be British cuisine if it’s invented by white people, despite south asian and afro-caribbean influences being an inextricable part of British culture for centuries, is one of the most pervasive casually racist ideas the US has about the UK.

well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him

Huh. Today I learned that English Heritage gives free admission to people who have been granted refugee status. What an excellent policy.

Tapestry also reportedly near disintegration

It's not often that I feel specifically targeted on a candle store page:

If you see this, post a gif of your favourite Ghibli movie

Just realised that today has been the perfect weather: I’ve been outside most of the time and simply not thought at any point about being too hot or too cold, or worried about getting sunburnt or rained on. Just… comfortable.