Sending @wombat37.bsky.social all the love in the world.

The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic Photo: Pete Seaward

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Proper cricket, a mixture of talent and application

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Goodnight from Janet Rathbone, instinctively leaning in from the family car’s passenger window as if the darkness outside might shatter it at any moment. Goodnight from Freda Dix, rearranging knickknacks on her mantlepiece in hope of apotropaic alignment. Goodnight from Hookland.

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We're back in action tomorrow.... 🙌 #BackingGreen #FuelledByCerta ☘️🏏

I’ve been watching England Test teams for 50+ years. I’ve seen less talented teams than this one win against superior opposition through wise tactics and application. What is unpalatable is watching this team of more talented players lose through tactical stupidity and arrogance. #TheAshes

Oliver John Douglas Pope, go to your room immediately and reflect on what you have done #thecricket

DAVE DOMBROWSKI, ON THE PHONE OUTSIDE A RESTAURANT: Yeah. Okay. Fine. So is the blood back inside him

I thought that What Three Words gave unique locations around the world. Yet when I entered "England. Batting. Collapse" into the app, it showed several places in Australia. #Ashes

Day 6 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the Clapperclaw is taken from tin. No-one knows how the crow-headed figure came to be part of the dressing, but everyone is too afraid to suggest throwing it out. We give it a high branch for it talons to grip, let its glass eyes seek out new prey.

A display of dominance from the Norwegian men: they’re likely to get 5 in the top 10 in today’s sprint, with and other 1-2 for Botn and Uldal. They’ve always had the deepest squad but to have that level of performance? Amazing! #biathln

Even more dominant: 5 of the top 7.

There hasn’t been a wild wolf in Hookland since 1483, but the land is long memory told in ghosts. The King’s Chase Forest has phantom pack. Wolves grown in size with each generation’s telling. Red-eyed, shadow-furred. They howl so we don’t forget our extinguishing sin. - #CLNolan

County cricket is five months away and England are annoying. Therefore I will spend the afternoon concentrating on this Essex v Somerset fixture The big boys await in the Third Round

🚨NEW CCP EPISODE🚨 West Indies break all kind of records as they secure an improbable draw in the first test match vs New Zealand. @mashstpaddy.bsky.social & @santokie.bsky.social look back at a stunning final day & test match. youtu.be/cgiqkwwLU18?...

A photo of cricket a day from this year as an advent calendar - so this is for 6th of December Mine & Peter O’Toole’s favourite cricket ground Lustleigh CC v Erratics CC - 31 May

Well, seems as if this time around #England have left us with nothing more to say. Absolutely no words. #Theashes

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/... Feel free to 'Peru'-se the rest of my website ha ha ha peruse ha ha

Mitchell Starc is now the top run-scorer at No. 9 in Test history 👏

‘Roach, however, has not scored for 72 balls.’ That is a sentence I would not have expected to read and shows WI reading the match better than England, no? Also, thank you NZ and WI for agreeing to a 3-test series. It’s going be fascinating. #NZvWI #theashes Source:

I hope The War Between The Land And The Sea honours its source material and features a surprise guest appearance by The Clangers. Fans demand continuity.

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Amazing batting at Christchurch. Absolutely the right thing not to be tempted to try to accelerate. But had there been 15 more offers… Such commitment to seeing this job through suggests this might be more tha another false dawn. Test cricket is the best. #cricket #NZvWI

@mattsmally.bsky.social I have to go now. Here's hoping you get to see something special.

Just going to drop this here as it is the best bit of new I've seen in a while. I will always be immensely proud of my Italian heritage and I am equally proud of the boys qualifying for the #T20WorldCup (lord knows we can't seem to get into the football world cup) cricketireland.ie/news/ciao-it...

A photo of cricket a day from this year as an advent calendar - so this is for 5th of December - Mount Edgcumbe CC v Erratics CC - Cornwall 11 May 2025

Celtics, 69 Lakers, 46 @ Halftime Austin Reaves: 12 points, 2/7 FG, 4 turnovers Jordan Walsh: 9 points, 3 rebs, 2 steals, 1 block Reaves is averaging a career-high 28.9 points this season, and Walsh just scored a career-high 22 points on Thursday night vs. Washington.

Not commenting specifically because @johnnield2.bsky.social , but some batter somewhere has just scored a well-deserved century. #NZvWI #cricket 🏏 🏝️

For any test cricket fans watching the Ashes, worth tuning in to the fifth day of New Zealand v West Indies now (on TNT). West Indies need another 300-odd to win with 4 wickets down, or bat all day for the draw. New Zealand have lost 2 of their 4 seamers to injury…

My first #NewZealandWatch of the winter/summer 🖤🏏 Always a uniquely fun way to follow test cricket, and a way to miss my home away from home a little less.

Neil Wagner on comms, sounding almost fully Kiwi these days 😍 🖤🏏

Excellent innings from Shai Hope, good to see him back in the runs! 👌🌴🏏

@mattsmally.bsky.social Have to head for dinner as Day Five gets underway. Odds Hope and Greaves make it to lunch and my return? Seems like it’s game over if they don’t. Maybe game on if they do?

It’s not too late for you “kick the round ball into a net” people to start following another sport, you know. Hitting a bit of hard leather with a big stick for five days is fun. Or chasing around after an odd shaped ball and crashing into other people. At least we’re not fascists supporters.

Day five of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the Star Wraith haunts a branch. The hooded figurine, face and body made from constellations of enamelled stars, seems to float more than dangle. Oddly, the stars seem to have shifted position each time you look closely at it.

Losing captain should wear the suit for the toss at the opening test of the next series

Looking forward to England failing to not take the last wicket so they have to bat for three overs at days’ end. Going to be terrific stuff. #theashes #cricket

The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...

█▓▒▒░░░MATCH DAY░░░▒▒▓█ We're in Cape Town for this 1st T20I between Ireland Women and South Africa Women. C'mon, Ireland!! Here are your links for today: 👉 Scorecard: bit.ly/44R5PHb 👉 Livestream: bit.ly/48AbkeB #BackingGreen #FuelledByCerta ☘️🏏

A century stand between Shai Hope and Justin Greaves against a depleted New Zealand attack gives West Indies hope in Christchurch srkl.in/6012BAR43j #NZvWI

@mattsmally.bsky.social Well, I was wrong about Chanderpaul, but Hope and Greaves… #NZvWI #cricket 🏝️🏏

History is funny because on one hand nobody has given anybody else a big wooden horse in several thousand years but also it appears we’ve learned literally nothing else so kind of a wash

A cricket hat! Somewhere on the grass there is a bat, balls & stumps!

Thank you for your support in 2025 Somerset fans ❤️ You really are Somerset! 👊 #YouAreSomerset

This sort of partnership is really important, particularly for a county like Derbyshire who struggled last season and need help to promote the club and find the next generation of players and supporters. #HerGameToo #Cricket #Tier2

Parry appointed new Head Coach at Essex..... essexcricket.org.uk/2025/12/04/s...