A tiny frog for you 🐸 #frogs #nature #wildlife

Love this.

Goodnight from Starfall Common, home to a half-dozen telescopes pointed skywards after last week’s curious spate of fireball sightings. Goodnight from Andy Carr, wondering who he pissed off to be cursed to spend six hours trying to find his way out of Broxton Drift. Goodnight from Hookland.

The Banshees are working on their social media, seemingly, so I can't tell what they think officially, but here's the clear-as-day statement from the club a bunch of the women I coached in college went on to play for. Proud of them then. Proud of them now.

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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Thunderbird 2 has let itself go.

For in Hookland, a county with long resentment of the Normans, the word faery was less used than elf. People did not disappear to Fairyland, but to Elfland. Of course, Elves themselves often preferred other names – Wind Children, the Silvered Ones, the Farthest Folk. – #CLNolan

A beautiful painting that somehow captures the feelings Jean inspired in Nancy. The Penguin on the desk is a nice touch. Forth was a classicist, but she seemingly was someone who kept up with contemporary literature.

The full story behind the Steelbacks' Vitality Blast triumph and why it ranks among the proudest moments of Darren Lehmann's career - new piece by me on The Steeler. To read the full feature and all of our special coverage, you can subscribe for less than £1 a week here: thesteeler.news/subscribe

At one point I thought some of this was a bit extreme, but the WhatsApp group in the last village I lived in made me feel perhaps I'd not gone far enough... E.G. when it massively blew up because a "northern-sounding man" (the horror!) visited the village to sell some dishcloths door-to-door...

Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists

When we talk of faeries, we are often talking of terror. For all the flower fairy propaganda and J.M. Barrie's tinkling bells, true faeries rarely have any love for humanity. The true faery is as likely taloned as wearing a dandelion dress and has teeth hungry for blood. – #CLNolan

AI has its uses

Steve and Brad have been thrown out of the pub. They are definitely not happy about it.

This was published today in 1969 While Apollo 11 was on it s way to the moon Greatest correction ever

Gosh. This was a discovery for me. One I am glad to have made.

Few people are familar with Evangeline Paterson's poetry these days, though she was an excellent exponent of the genre. In this terrific example, her tone might seem conversational at first, but then the poem starts to show us its layers...

Set up a MetroBank Cup Fantasy League - It's called the TournamentthatSHALLbenamed Please feel free to join up

Google Scholar Alert tells me I have been cited in this book: The Spiritual Borderlands at the Edge of Empire: Anglican Missionaries William and Charlotte Bompas. I cannot for the life of me work out why. Now I have to track the book down. Compensation: It might well be interesting.

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

Also: How many people did she think would actually read Autumn Journal? Nancy was capable of making things about her.

The farmer's daily thoughts are always of the weather. When it comes to the edge of harvest, fear of storm enfolds their minds. Prayers and rituals are deployed. Weather-witches are contracted. You may call this superstition, but you cannot call it hollow of meaning. – #CLNolan

Just published with Historical Database Suriname and the Caribbean: *Dataset: Enslaved Runaways from Curaçao to Coro, 1729-1775* Open Access: doi.org/10.34894/ULK...

Amazing. Peter Magyar will ask chess legend Judit Polgar to be Hungary's interim president tomorrow. Did not see that move coming. worldchess.com/news/judit-p...

So, it’s finally over now?

I managed to catch a few minutes of the World Cup Final while walking through the living room and it did strike me as an excellent advertisement for women's football.

great World Cup for bluesky. it was a good time yet again

Shit game, great tourney. You won’t get insights like this just anywhere.

Right, Spain, now what are you absolutely not going to do now, you know, LIKE THAT OTHER TEAM DID IN THIS SITUATION?

I don’t understand. Why are Spain not taking off all their attacking players and giving Argentina loads of space to shoot from just outside the penalty area?

When she opened a copy of Autumn Journal while traveling home on the Tube, Sharp burst into tears thinking people would now look at her as the person who had rejected Louis. I am still touched by her faith in how many people read poetry. #LouisMacNeice #booksky #arthistory

Gleder meg til å se Kid Rock og The January 6th prison choir i pausen

@wgrumblepants.bsky.social has been showing us a series of beautiful cricket grounds I’m going to show you every ground I umpire at in 2026. Today I was back at Hook & Newnham for Hampshire U18s v London Schools

Steve and Brad have had a long day at the pub and are finally on their way home. Steve (who can no longer really see) is leading the way. Best of luck, boys.

What is happening and also: why

"We go over to the half-time show"

There's an entirely different game of cricket going on in Guyana. Quite a #WI recovery. #thecricket #WIvNZ

Thank you for sharing this

Ealing CC Pavilion, West London #photography #Ealing #cricket #pavilion

It's not coming home. But maybe it might visit for a long weekend.

Look, I *very* rarely get to put my graduate degree in early modern British history to use, so kindly indulge me in some references to 18th century polemics.

England's first third place finish since World War II

No finer town. Sod the football. The Steelbacks are T20 Champions for the third time. #cricket

Congratulations to Northants CCC on a well deserved win at T20 Blast Finals Day. Good to see these non-test ground counties punching above their weight 💪🏏🏏🏏

For many years Essex's Robin Hobbs was labelled one of the last exponents of what was seen as the dying art of leg spin. He played the last of his seven Tests in 1971 - it was 21 years before another specialist legspinner played for England (Patrick Eagar)

No longer today but last month. Otherwise, this post remains accurate. #arthistory

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

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

We had smoke. We will have smoke. But right now, it's pretty good to be here.