🇮🇳 🏴 Ravichandran Ashwin dismisses Zak Crawley to reach 500 Test wickets. Rapid century for Ben Duckett - 102 off 88 balls 👏🏏
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🔗 Why mead is made for Valentine’s Day
"mead, a drink that newlyweds used to be given for a month after their nuptials to promote fertility (hence the term “honeymoon”)"
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/feb/09/why-mead-is-made-for-valentines-day
🏏 May need to wake up earlier. Up at 5am, only an hour’s play, and India already 39-3 🇮🇳 🏴 😳
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 - ★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2024/02/14/star-wars-the.html
Home screen status update!
I use the first two screens of my phone as easily accessible ‘Home’ screens. The first is now starting to get overpopulated with note-making/taking apps 🙂 🤷♂️
My second screen is more of a ‘consumption’ screen 🤓
It poured with rain all day yesterday. But it was a good, lazy day. My wife had the rare day off without working so we sat on the sofa all afternoon and watched a couple of films. Bird Box: Bracelona and Triangle of Sadness. Then started the Netflix series One Day in the evening 🎥 📺
Triangle of Sadness, 2022 - ★★★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2024/02/13/triangle-of-sadness.html
Bird Box Barcelona, 2023 - ★★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2024/02/13/bird-box-barcelona.html
Italian theme tonight - spaghetti with (vegan) meatballs and Chianti Classico 🍷 🇮🇹
🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:
Hozier (43 plays)
Leon Mccawley (42)
Ola Szmidt (29)
New Order (24)
Bryan Ferry (18)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, 2017 - ★★★½ https://thedimpau.se/2024/02/09/star-wars-the.html
Egg seen on walk 🚶♂️🤷🏼♂️
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015 - ★★★★ https://thedimpau.se/2024/02/08/star-wars-the.html
New coffee shop in town. Coco’s. Alex Gooch almond croissant and americano ☕️
Location check in 🗺 — Coco’s, Aberdare ☕️
https://maps.apple.com/?q=51.713639,-3.446080&ll=51.713639,-3.446080
Some fantastic wildlife images here:
"Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award winner bbc.co.uk
BBC - Home https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-68215592
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-68215592 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-68215592
Linkblog 🔗: John Cage: Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord - BBC News 🎵
"The longest - and slowest - music composition in existence had a big day on Monday - it changed chord for the first time in two years.
Crowds gathered at a church in Germany to witness the rare moment, which is part of an artistic feat by avant-garde composer, John Cage.
The experimental piece, entitled As Slow as Possible, began in 2001.
Being played on a specially-built organ, it is not set to finish playing until the year 2640."
‘Every piece of filth that comes out of my mouth – that’s mine’: inside Curb Your Enthusiasm’s final season 📺🔗
"The most influential television comedy of the 21st century is coming to an end. Tonight, the first episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm’s 12th and final season will air, kicking off a 10-week run that will apparently wrap up Larry David’s revolutionary improvised sitcom with a definitive conclusion."
Awake at 4:30am so of course I decide to get up to watch day 4 of the India v England second Test. England chasing 399 to win 😬🏏
Location check in 🗺 — Mud Dock Cafe, Bristol. Bristol Beer Factory Independence Pale Ale plus a Mexican bean burger 🍔🍺
https://maps.apple.com/?q=51.449400,-2.595432&ll=51.449400,-2.595432