Ashes cricket has livened up a little since the lunch interval. After this morning’s session I thought I’d be slowly watching Australia build a decent total. Now wickets have fallen 🏏
Not a fantastic game for the most part and England not entirely convincing towards the end but they secure a win ⚽️🏆
Sensational early goal by Lauren James 🏴 ⚽️ 🏆
The final group matches in the FIFA Women’s World Cup are looking very interesting. Some crucial games, starting on Sunday. Meanwhile this morning at 9:30am BST it’s England 🏴 v 🇩🇰 Denmark - not the final Group D game but a win for either side means progress to the knockout stages ⚽
JULY TWENTY-EIGHTH
And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose,
The sweetest flower for scent that blows;
And all rare blossoms from every clime
Grew in that garden in perfect prime.
The Sensitive Plant
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Poetry #daybyday
🏏 Final Ashes Test
JULY 27
The Spirit whom I loved in solitude
Sustained his child; the tempest-shaken wood,
The waves, the fountains, and the hush of night —
These were his voice, and well I understood
His smile divine, when the calm sea was bright
With silent stars, and Heaven was breathless with delight.
Revolt of Islam
Percy Bysshe Shelley
From ‘Shelley Day by Day’
Edited by Edith L. Allen
#Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley #daybyday
⚽️ Raining very heavily during the Canada v Ireland match in Perth 🌧️
🏆 Breakfast while watching the second half of Japan v Costa Rica ⚽️
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 2008 - ★★★★½ https://thedimpau.se/2023/07/25/indiana-jones-and.html
Yarrow 🌼 🌱
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 - ★★★★½ https://thedimpau.se/2023/07/24/191852.html
Spinach and onion frittata🥚
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984 - ★★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2023/07/24/indiana-jones-and.html
I very rarely share meme-type images but this took my fancy … 🏏
"England’s first drawn Test under Stokes & McCullum"
Courtesy of The Cricketer
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, 2023 - ★★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2023/07/23/dungeons-amp-dragons.html
A bad day for bread. My Panasonic SD-2501WXC bread maker appears to have given up the ghost today after a 12 year lifespan. Appears to have died in the middle of baking a spelt loaf 😢
Roughly estimate it’s baked close to 1500 loaves of bread plus made 200-300 kilograms of pizza dough 🍕🍞
☔ Looks like I’ll be watching some of the France v Jamaica FIFAWWC match whilst the weather makes its mind up in Manchester ⚽🏆 🏏
♫ My Top 5 #lastfm artists: Jackson Browne (20), XTC (14), Phish (13), Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood (9) & The Philadelphia Orchestra & Yannick Nézet-Séguin (8) - copied from my @tweeklyfm dashboard
Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 - ★★★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2023/07/22/raiders-of-the.html