Reached the #treeapp milestone of planting 2000 free trees today…which was nice.

Crisp sponsors and daytime pyrotechnics alone aren’t going to bring new blood to Test Cricket.

If The Hundred is to succeed as a gateway to longer forms of Cricket the commentary needs to be more informative (explan field placings, tactics, jargon etc).
If you want to keep the established commentators then use on screen pop-up explainers when using the cricketing lingo.

I'm sad to say that since leaving Twitter/X my sales for live shows have dropped quite a lot - it turns out that even though it's a dreadful place it was still useful for getting the word out about events. So any shares / RTs of my posts about live shows are hugely appreciated!

Back at Trent Bridge today for ENGvZIM.. My first experience of Test Cricket was here 27 years ago when Andrew Flintoff made his debut…therefore expecting a lot of Sam Cook!

Rather than retaliating with counter tariffs, we should instead adopt a similar traffic light system to that on food, but instead of nutritional information it shows where products were manufactured and where the raw materials came from.
Red=USA/Russia, Amber=Rest of the World, Green=UK

That sense of mild disorientation when a song you’ve heard hundreds of times on a mixtape you made is played on the radio, and isn’t immediately followed by the song you were expecting.

Why isn’t the person who invented putting a grid on the back of wrapping paper better well known? ‘Noël Grid’ (let’s call them) surely should have the same recognition as Alexander Fleming, Tim Berners-Lee or Colonel Sanders...

Some more good news!

This is very good news!!

And Florida thought they had it bad…

Sunset at Gleninagh

Logh Corrib

Cliffs of Moher

Giants Causeway

Just spent a fantastic week in Ireland. Sun and blue sky every day and some stunning views!

Play them at the Test venues that don't have an England Test that year (Durham, Cardiff etc). That way, these nations get more Test Match experience and fans near the overlooked grounds can still get to enjoy international cricket

To make sure Test Cricket thrives in other countries, there should be a tri-nation test series held in England each summer between some of the lower ranked teams (Ireland, Afghanistan etc) which runs parallel to the England Test series.

Selection for the Olympics should be like selection for jury service. 57 year old Susan from Dorset gets a letter in the post to compete in the pole vault

Volleyball has Beach Volleyball, Basketball has 3X3 and Tennis has Table Tennis.
Let Archery have Darts, Weightlifting have Arm Wrestling and Cycling have Unicycling.

Loved Paris2024 (not as much as London 2012 though, obvs).

TeamGB did an amazing job, but to help boost our medal hopes at future games, we should campaign to introduce some more 'mini' sports.

Any plans to post more on Bluesky for us ex-X-ers?

Shame #paris2024 haven’t adopted this excellent idea…

New York state should be called New Yorkshire.

Love it when the BBC News app plays Misfits

Old MacDonald had a personalised numberplate, E1 E10.

If you’re new to Bluesky you need to know the following rules:

You are allowed up to 3 posts a day
Incorrectly punctuated posts will be put in the holding pen for review by the committee
At least one of your daily posts must contain the word ’rummage’
The only permitted swear word is ‘knockers’

Happy 2024 Everyone… I think it’s going to be cracking!

Happy Christmas everyone!

Whether you've seen this, or not, it is a thing of real magic.

🎶It’s beginning to look a lot like…March

Hello! I’m Simon and as way of an introduction I’m a Civil Engineer in rural Cumbria, UK.

I love walking, stunning rural landscapes, cricket and well crafted (kind) comedy.

I’m also quite boring so don’t expect too many posts!