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Eryri dusk:

Young children have a rich fantasy life, imagining themselves to be a famous celebrity, or a star footballer, or even a top general. The President of the US is a young child:

Thinking of getting AI to produce a picture of me in cricket whites flanked by Jack Hobbs and Joe Root. You don’t have to be President of the United States to be ridiculous:

Did Israel and the US help engineer the recent poor performances of the England cricket team? Jones needs to investigate:

Haven't heard much of this lot recently, but I hear they are going to release a cover version of John Lennon's 'Give Peace a Chance'. No doubt the MAGA faithful will snap it up:

Presumably this woman imagines that she would have put up much sterner resistance than the French if she had been there in 1940:

Good thread on racism:

It’s worth remembering that quite a few western “progressives” cheered the return of the Taliban because it was a defeat for Western policies, and nothing could be worse in their eyes than Western policies:

Morning on Ynys Môn, with the Carneddau, Dyffryn Ogwen, and the Glyderau in the distance:

Lovely piece by @athersmike.bsky.social on a village cricket club that featured in a John Arlott film 40 years ago, a club where the teas “are recognised as among the best in the division”: www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke...

Retracing Arlott’s footsteps to club that is still village’s beating heartChardstock featured in a film by the legendary broadcaster 40 years ago and the same cricket-loving families are keeping its spirit alive amid bucolic splendourwww.thetimes.com

Nothing impresses Donald Trump half as much as Donald Trump:

Good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social on how ordinary people who are not particularly unsavoury and not obscenely rich seem to be turning against the activities of those who are both: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Gianni and the KushnersThe world fights backopen.substack.com

Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on how those who see themselves as really progressive can end up as an apologist for a brutal aggressive dictatorship: open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Spain was part of the Roman Empire first. So maybe the Italians should demand it back. They could also demand France and Britain while they’re at it. But the Brits could demand Ireland back. And the 13 American colonies:

What could be better on a Sunday morning than reading John Arlott on a day in 1953 “when, it seemed, half the country held its breath all afternoon”? www.cricinfo.com/story/the-wa...

The Watson- Bailey epicJohn Arlott's personal reflections on the great England rearguard at Lord's in 1953, when, it seemed, half the country held its breath all afternoonwww.cricinfo.com

Rowan tree and Bregalad’s lament in Lord of the Rings:

For Diane Abbott, newly restored to the Labour Party, these things are all a result of “NATO’s campaign against Russia”. Wonder if she thinks Guernica was a result of some Western campaign against Nazi Germany?

I’m a day late: nation.cymru/culture/cala...

Calan Awst: The ancient Welsh harvest festival celebrated on 1 AugustNation.Cymru Staff Before the National Eisteddfod became one of Wales’ biggest summer celebrations, 1 August marked the beginning of the traditional harvest festival known as Calan Awst, or Gŵyl Awst....nation.cymru

Trump no more cares about what the people of Greenland want than Putin cares about what people of Ukraine want. Both men think they should have anything they want, and the wishes of ordinary people are completely irrelevant:

Evening at Pentraeth beach (with some horsetails):