ckn

That... was frankly stupid by Stokes.

You don't have to worry about dropped catches if you're smashing the wickets over like this. (given my proven lack of cricket knowledge, I now wait for five dropped catches in the next three overs)

That pitch though, played like a first day pitch until the 3rd day then a 2nd day pitch for the rest. Almost no use for a spinner with less than Murali or Warne levels of talent except for poor shots by the batsmen. I think the slow bowling in the game was more of the bowlers not wanting to be thumped into the stand every ball.

Y'see how little I know about cricket?

Is the trademarked English Batting Collapse happening?

I am very happy that I seem to know one small thing about cricket.

That brings back so many memories. Thoroughly addictive programme back then!

It’s good to see England’s cricket fielding remains the one true constant in my life.

Granny's massive bush

Get one, get two.

England haven't had a bat yet...

I've got the Eng v NZ game on in the background now. The pitch looks very ... green. I take it the groundskeeper had a strong "this WILL last 5 days, or else" message given.

I follow this history professor, he posts daily "on this day" things and well worth a follow: https://twitter.com/FXMC1957

I noticed the new series of The Blacklist was on and I shrugged as we ignored series 8 because that one annoying character was spoiling it with a mixture of awful acting and awful scripting of her character. Series 9, I noticed, didn’t have her in it. We watched the last two of 8 to see what happened. Were very happy with the outcome and rapidly went into the new series 9 with optimism. And it was good having the focus slowly crowbarred away from that old bilge of that character’s storyline.

Finished Moon Knight. Very enjoyable ending. Felt a bit rushed, but still satisfying.

When we first moved here in 2004, I saw a completely white pigeon hanging with the common ones. Today, I saw at least a dozen of them. That one original mutant has probably been sowing its oats and has plenty of grand pigeons around.

The Pluto TV app has a whole category of “B Movies”. You may not see me for a while.

Have you seen this week's one? A massive episode with lots of content that explains so much.

Moon Knight, truly outstanding telly. The last two episodes have been “argh… don’t stop there!”

I do have a bit of a liking for Rebecca Ferguson. She was a definite plus in the movie... There... I said a thing I like about it. It was OK, part 2 has to really step it up though.

We watched the new Dune film tonight. I thought 2hrs 40-odd would be an OK amount of time to fit the book into, maybe with some bits cut. 2hrs in, we weren’t even 1/3 of the way through the book content, it finally sunk in that it wasn’t the whole thing. Annoyed now as it was like going to a fancy restaurant, getting a starter that was OK, showed some promise for the main course then being told “come back in a year or two for the main course”

He’s one of those weird colonials. I feel sorry for them, unable to spoke proper England. It’s not right to mock the afflicted, so I tend to patronise them gently and let them get on with their lives.

A message just in from a friend from New York after watching the Jimmy Savile thing on Netflix: "WTF England, WTF. Was everyone either a pedophile or covering up for one in the 80s in England?"