The dark underbelly of women's cricket's growth.

A grim read - but an important one.

Print with nine stylised animals and birds, including two cats, a rooster, mice and a rabbit, in different colours on a white background

Jane Ormes, contemporary UK printmaker based in Bristol #WomensArt

The Edge Hotel in Whitehaven, Cumbria

If anyone is in the Whitehaven area, could you pop over to the Jawas and ask if they have any secondhand droids for sale, thanks.

Embankment Gardens being pretty

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer Exclusive: Victoria and Albert Museum has deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing censors from exhibition publications

Well this is appalling.

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Gloucestershire appoint Shane Jurgensen as bowling consultant Struggling Gloucestershire have named former Bangladesh coach Shane Jurgensen as a bowling consultant.

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The fact that the Wisden Five can all be men, but would never be 5 women, should tell us something.

Chart showing Wisden Cricketers of the Year by Gender Year Women Men 2009 1 4 2010 0 5 2011 0 4 2012 0 5 2013 0 5 2014 1 4 2015 0 5 2016 0 5 2017 0 5 2018 3 2 2019 1 4 2020 1 4 2021 0 5 2022 1 4 2023 1 4 2024 1 4 2025 1 4 2026 0 5

Since Claire Taylor became the first woman in the "Wisden 5" in 2009, 11 women have been included alongside 78 men; meaning 88% of winners are men and just 12% women.

I'm not sure exactly what equality looks like, but this isn't it.

Really disappointing that BBC’s Today programme failed to even ask Lawrence Booth about the lack of a woman in the Wisden Five. Deepti Sharma also not mentioned as the Leading Female Cricketer. If you listened to that segment you might well come away thinking women don’t play cricket at all.

Image displaying that the teams in 9th & 10th will get the same prize money as in 2024, the teams from 8th to 5th will get much less and only the top four teams will get more.

I wouldn't generally associate Cricinfo with speaking truth to power these days but fair play to them for pointing out that the increase in prize money the ICC is bragging about for the WT20 World Cup is nothing of the sort, just another handout to the richest. www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc-in...

Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full Episode YouTube video by Taskmaster

You may not know @taskmaster.tv. It's hilarious & joyful. I begged to do it, worked out my schedule a year ahead of time to make it happen & got to do the best show on TV w/ the loveliest ppl. Ep 1 is out &, trust me, you need this joy. All seasons free on youtube.

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'Bluebells', machine embroidered artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #womensart

"You can't hear an image"

The image:

Having a Whale of a Time!

I've been making incremental progress on this one while dealing with chronic illness, so I'm very happy to have a finished painting to show for it 🙂 Cards and prints to come.

#Illustration #Art #SeaLife #MarineAnimals #WatercolourPainting #Fish #Artist #Cornwall #Whale

The galling bit is that for years the BBC’s mantra was “we cover every ball of county cricket live”. Then the women appear and suddenly… “oh no we couldn’t possibly”.

An advert from the Sheffield Independent, 1899. It reads T and J Roberts, large show of blankets! blankets! blankets! blankets! blankets! blankets! blankets!blankets! blankets! It dates from a time when you couldn't have a picture in the newspaper, so you just had to repeat words in all caps with a lot of space around them to make your ad bigger and more noticeable.

I bloody love blankets.

Israeli attack kills Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in Gaza Israeli drone strike kills Mohammed Wishah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, west of Gaza City.

This is at least the 12th Al-Jazeera journalist assassinated by Israel

The ground is now open to the public. But we don't have any play.

2026 County Championship: Club-by-club guide to the season BBC local radio cricket commentators take a look at each County Championship side's prospects for the 2026 season.

Here's the county by county guide from BBC Sport, ahead of the new season, which starts tomorrow:
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

'Logan's Rock, St Levan,' (c1916) perfectly demonstrates the height of Laura Knight’s development in Cornwall, this work is part of a series of paintings she composed between 1915 and 1919 all sharing an elevated viewpoint, dramatic diagonal composition and vibrant colour.

Some bad news from your favourite archive

a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her . ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .

This is top notch on so many levels 🤣👌

Photo of a green garden with large abstract sculptures and trees in blossom under a blue sky

The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall, UK #womensart

Orkney banana bonanza after Tesco store orders 38,000 by mistake An ordering glitch has left Tesco in Kirkwall giving away boxes of the fruit for free to schools and community groups.

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌

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Hungary Orders Investigation of Journalist on Espionage Accusation The decision by Hungary’s minister of justice to order an investigation into Szabolcs Panyi, a prominent Hungarian journalist, on dubious accusations of espionage, marks a dangerous escalation in the ...

Hungary’s decision to order an investigation into Szabolcs Panyi, a prominent Hungarian journalist, on dubious accusations of espionage, marks a dangerous escalation in the state’s crackdown on independent media.

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“Gender-critical beliefs” are IMO all about forcing cis women to conform to the stereotypical feminine.

Photo feating four tennis and badminton rackets leaning against a white wall each with an embroidery of a flower in the strings

Danielle Clough, contemporary fibre artist and designer from Cape Town, South Africa #womensart

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Fandom: Writing a New Movie, a ‘Hobbit’ Cameo, Speaking Elvish on ‘The Late Show’ and More Stephen Colbert is writing a 'Lord of the Rings' movie. Here are 7 times he proved he was born for the job.

“I have never met a bigger Tolkien geek in my life. His encyclopedic knowledge of Tolkien is spectacular, and points to a deprived childhood in some respects,” -Jackson

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group