Romeo
@romeoromeotango.bsky.social
Translator/editor and cricket follower, especially emerging/associate and county cricket
Blues, soul, Emmylou
Name is my initials
romeoromeotango.wordpress.com , mainly about cricket - email address there
Image is Polygraph XV Anys; 1980. Antoni Tàpies
Blues, soul, Emmylou
Name is my initials
romeoromeotango.wordpress.com , mainly about cricket - email address there
Image is Polygraph XV Anys; 1980. Antoni Tàpies
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'The 'Pillar of Salt': a Grade II-listed road sign designed in International Modern style by Basil Oliver, Borough Architect, for Bury St Edmunds Town Council in 1935.
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
'The 'Pillar of Salt': a Grade II-listed road sign designed in International Modern style by Basil Oliver, Borough Architect, for Bury St Edmunds Town Council in 1935.
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A packed Headingley watches Australia bat on the first day of the 3rd Ashes Test, July 10th 1926. Although England followed on they easily avoided defeat. Poor weather and an abundance of caution resulted in four dull draws before the timeless finale at The Oval.
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A packed Headingley watches Australia bat on the first day of the 3rd Ashes Test, July 10th 1926. Although England followed on they easily avoided defeat. Poor weather and an abundance of caution resulted in four dull draws before the timeless finale at The Oval.
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“David, who shall we invite to the wedding?”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
October 28, 2024 at 11:46 AM
“David, who shall we invite to the wedding?”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Found on eBay, sold by someone flipping random tat. The only extant miniature spinning wheel by Hardys of York, 1824 - 1843, now fully restored. Knew it was good when I saw it but didn't realise it was so important to wheel history. Restoration write-up in 'The Spinning Wheel Sleuth', October, 2025.
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Found on eBay, sold by someone flipping random tat. The only extant miniature spinning wheel by Hardys of York, 1824 - 1843, now fully restored. Knew it was good when I saw it but didn't realise it was so important to wheel history. Restoration write-up in 'The Spinning Wheel Sleuth', October, 2025.
This is very well worth reading all the way.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is very well worth reading all the way.
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Wishing you all a wonderful #StAndrewsDay 🏴
This is an appreciation post for my grandfather, who was born in Dunfermline in 1947.
This is him cutting my parents' wedding cake with a saw because the icing was so hard that they couldn't cut it with a knife.
This is an appreciation post for my grandfather, who was born in Dunfermline in 1947.
This is him cutting my parents' wedding cake with a saw because the icing was so hard that they couldn't cut it with a knife.
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Wishing you all a wonderful #StAndrewsDay 🏴
This is an appreciation post for my grandfather, who was born in Dunfermline in 1947.
This is him cutting my parents' wedding cake with a saw because the icing was so hard that they couldn't cut it with a knife.
This is an appreciation post for my grandfather, who was born in Dunfermline in 1947.
This is him cutting my parents' wedding cake with a saw because the icing was so hard that they couldn't cut it with a knife.
We have to be careful with this. Jeremy Warner, who wrote the article, voted Remain and he's written a few such articles since 2016. Also, he quotes a study supporting his line of thought but in the same breath questions its credibility (to keep Telegraph readers semi-happy). It's not Saul/Damascus.
The Telegraph denounces Brexit as ‘unmitigated economic disaster’
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Richmond station has been restored to its art deco glory.
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Richmond station has been restored to its art deco glory.
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When it gets really cold bluebirds roost together in a pile using collective body heat to help them survive. They arrange themselves so they don’t smother & alternate positions within the pile. Photo by Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina (WRNC). Thank you Van Harris for sharing this. 🐦 #birds
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
When it gets really cold bluebirds roost together in a pile using collective body heat to help them survive. They arrange themselves so they don’t smother & alternate positions within the pile. Photo by Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina (WRNC). Thank you Van Harris for sharing this. 🐦 #birds
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Good morning everyone!
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Choir! Choir! Choir! & Patti Smith sing "PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER" in NYC with Stewart Copeland
YouTube video by Choir! Choir! Choir!
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November 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Good morning everyone!
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Attractive scheme of flats on Aylesford High Street/Mount Pleasant, built by Malling Rural District Council in 1968. The plaque gives due credit to C Brown Architect, Engineer and Surveyor to the Council 1954-1967.
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Attractive scheme of flats on Aylesford High Street/Mount Pleasant, built by Malling Rural District Council in 1968. The plaque gives due credit to C Brown Architect, Engineer and Surveyor to the Council 1954-1967.
The scale of the Brexit damage forces the less dishonest Brexiters to admit reality.
(Sunak, same paper, continues to delude himself and his readers)
(Farage would rip up any reset and plunge business into more costly uncertainty)
“Such evidence cannot be dismissed as Project Fear. It is data”
(Sunak, same paper, continues to delude himself and his readers)
(Farage would rip up any reset and plunge business into more costly uncertainty)
“Such evidence cannot be dismissed as Project Fear. It is data”
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Sometimes I think that if we put human babies and baby seals together in a room and let them chat, they'd understand each other perfectly.
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Sometimes I think that if we put human babies and baby seals together in a room and let them chat, they'd understand each other perfectly.
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Playwright and cricket fan Tom Stoppard, who has died aged 88, wrote a famous speech in praise of the cricket bat in his play The Real Thing (1982), using the skilful creation of a bat as a metaphor for the writing of plays.
#TomStoppard
#TomStoppard
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Playwright and cricket fan Tom Stoppard, who has died aged 88, wrote a famous speech in praise of the cricket bat in his play The Real Thing (1982), using the skilful creation of a bat as a metaphor for the writing of plays.
#TomStoppard
#TomStoppard
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I’m hoping they go for ‘Our Party’, because that will wreak havoc in political interviews, as Tory or Labour or Lib Dem people will end up saying things like ‘Our party is doing very badly in the polls,’ or ‘Nobody in their right mind would vote for our party,’ etc etc etc
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I’m hoping they go for ‘Our Party’, because that will wreak havoc in political interviews, as Tory or Labour or Lib Dem people will end up saying things like ‘Our party is doing very badly in the polls,’ or ‘Nobody in their right mind would vote for our party,’ etc etc etc
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Loch Ard Forest, Couligarten #Scotland #Kinlochard #Trossachs damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Loch Ard Forest, Couligarten #Scotland #Kinlochard #Trossachs damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar
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Papua New Guinea international Kiplin Doriga jailed for three years in Jersey. www.outlookindia.com/amp/story/sp...
Kiplin Doriga: PNG Cricketer Sentenced To Three Years In Prison - Check Details | Outlook India
In a statement released by the Detective Sergeant Jim McGranahan of the States of Jersey Police, the latter praised the investigation that led to the arrest of the PNG cricketer
www.outlookindia.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Papua New Guinea international Kiplin Doriga jailed for three years in Jersey. www.outlookindia.com/amp/story/sp...
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Hey Winston pal @winstonthewoofer.bsky.social - a friend sent me this image of Airedales playing Cricket - thought it might give you & Himself a laugh. I think our games might be slow going - imagine how long it’d take to get the ball back from the fielders. 🤣😆🤭
~ Bobby ✋
~ Bobby ✋
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hey Winston pal @winstonthewoofer.bsky.social - a friend sent me this image of Airedales playing Cricket - thought it might give you & Himself a laugh. I think our games might be slow going - imagine how long it’d take to get the ball back from the fielders. 🤣😆🤭
~ Bobby ✋
~ Bobby ✋
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So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
Highly recommended longish thread.
Five glasses of wine, five colours.
All from the same grape, grown in the same area. What’s the difference?
A 🧵on Montilla-Moriles wines.
All from the same grape, grown in the same area. What’s the difference?
A 🧵on Montilla-Moriles wines.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Highly recommended longish thread.
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Without doubt the oddest item (and one of the most popular) in the Lord's Museum. The sparrow killed mid-flight by a ball bowled by Cambridge University's Jahangir Khan to Tom Pierce v MCC at Lord's on July 3rd 1936. Both ball and bird were declared dead
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Without doubt the oddest item (and one of the most popular) in the Lord's Museum. The sparrow killed mid-flight by a ball bowled by Cambridge University's Jahangir Khan to Tom Pierce v MCC at Lord's on July 3rd 1936. Both ball and bird were declared dead
Do read the article.
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Do read the article.