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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@ACScricket is running a series of talks for members in March, April
& May which will be serious, academic discussions on cricket. We kick off on 14th March at 10.00am UK time with a panel discussion on Literary Sports Journalism with #tombradshaw #elizabethellison #kaseysymons #cricketcounts
& May which will be serious, academic discussions on cricket. We kick off on 14th March at 10.00am UK time with a panel discussion on Literary Sports Journalism with #tombradshaw #elizabethellison #kaseysymons #cricketcounts
February 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
@ACScricket is running a series of talks for members in March, April
& May which will be serious, academic discussions on cricket. We kick off on 14th March at 10.00am UK time with a panel discussion on Literary Sports Journalism with #tombradshaw #elizabethellison #kaseysymons #cricketcounts
& May which will be serious, academic discussions on cricket. We kick off on 14th March at 10.00am UK time with a panel discussion on Literary Sports Journalism with #tombradshaw #elizabethellison #kaseysymons #cricketcounts
You know it makes sense.
#acscricket gives great value to its members with an online database, regular online events, regular publications & books, members’s forum, an in-person event, a cutting edge website, auctions & much more. Join to access all of this at acscricket.com as #cricketcounts
February 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
You know it makes sense.
Highly recommended article.
What an incredibly cool FT article and WWI story!
The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders (🎁🔗)
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders (🎁🔗)
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders
The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition
giftarticle.ft.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Highly recommended article.
Kon'nichiwa from Japan! Travelling on the country’s last remaining sleeper train tonight, the Sunrise Express, from Takamatsu to Tokyo.
My home for the night is, er, a hard bit of carpet - or to use the local term, a nobinobi ‘seat’. And yes, Shinkansens will follow…
@seatsixtyone.bsky.social
My home for the night is, er, a hard bit of carpet - or to use the local term, a nobinobi ‘seat’. And yes, Shinkansens will follow…
@seatsixtyone.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social
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I think I’ve been scammed….My Rottweilers haven’t grown in months 😱😱
February 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I think I’ve been scammed….My Rottweilers haven’t grown in months 😱😱
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Timeline cleanse: a past Valentine’s Day when Sybil’s brain cell was confronted with a laptop cable inches off the ground.
February 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Timeline cleanse: a past Valentine’s Day when Sybil’s brain cell was confronted with a laptop cable inches off the ground.
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In the 1970s, this tiny medieval church faced the prospect of demolition. Thankfully we saved it from that fate and it is now cared for by an active and loving group of volunteers.
1/10
1/10
February 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
In the 1970s, this tiny medieval church faced the prospect of demolition. Thankfully we saved it from that fate and it is now cared for by an active and loving group of volunteers.
1/10
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When Monet first exhibited this impression of a sunrise at Le Havre, most critics were appalled, claiming they could not recognise what the painting was supposed to show.
The energy transition to renewables is not dissimilar: “What? Electricity without combustion? Ridiculous!”
The rest is history.
The energy transition to renewables is not dissimilar: “What? Electricity without combustion? Ridiculous!”
The rest is history.
February 14, 2026 at 5:20 PM
When Monet first exhibited this impression of a sunrise at Le Havre, most critics were appalled, claiming they could not recognise what the painting was supposed to show.
The energy transition to renewables is not dissimilar: “What? Electricity without combustion? Ridiculous!”
The rest is history.
The energy transition to renewables is not dissimilar: “What? Electricity without combustion? Ridiculous!”
The rest is history.
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Last year, @acscricket.bsky.social adopted a definitive list of women's first-class matches.
Thanks to Cricket Archive, we have now supplemented the existing women's international records on our website with an extensive range of women's first-class, List A and T20 records.
#WomensCricket
Thanks to Cricket Archive, we have now supplemented the existing women's international records on our website with an extensive range of women's first-class, List A and T20 records.
#WomensCricket
Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
stats.acscricket.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Last year, @acscricket.bsky.social adopted a definitive list of women's first-class matches.
Thanks to Cricket Archive, we have now supplemented the existing women's international records on our website with an extensive range of women's first-class, List A and T20 records.
#WomensCricket
Thanks to Cricket Archive, we have now supplemented the existing women's international records on our website with an extensive range of women's first-class, List A and T20 records.
#WomensCricket
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Italy are only the second mainland European country whose men's team have featured in a global tournament, after Netherlands.
Denmark's women have appeared in two World Cups, but the best their men managed was in 1979 when they lost in the semi-final of the qualifying tournament.
Denmark's women have appeared in two World Cups, but the best their men managed was in 1979 when they lost in the semi-final of the qualifying tournament.
February 12, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Italy are only the second mainland European country whose men's team have featured in a global tournament, after Netherlands.
Denmark's women have appeared in two World Cups, but the best their men managed was in 1979 when they lost in the semi-final of the qualifying tournament.
Denmark's women have appeared in two World Cups, but the best their men managed was in 1979 when they lost in the semi-final of the qualifying tournament.
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3/3 Artemis Cooper's biography 'Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure', and Stanley Moss's 'Ill Met By Moonlight', WWII adventures on Crete when Fermor kidnapped a German general! The two got on well thanks to a shared love of Latin verse, and were reunited emotionally on 'This Is Your Life' in 1972.
February 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
3/3 Artemis Cooper's biography 'Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure', and Stanley Moss's 'Ill Met By Moonlight', WWII adventures on Crete when Fermor kidnapped a German general! The two got on well thanks to a shared love of Latin verse, and were reunited emotionally on 'This Is Your Life' in 1972.
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2/3 Here's Patrick Leigh Fermor arriving in a snowy winter's dawn in Rotterdam off the overnight boat from London, at the very start of his journey, in the opening chapter of 'A Time of Gifts'. It was the 9th of December, 1933, and all Europe was before him.
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM
2/3 Here's Patrick Leigh Fermor arriving in a snowy winter's dawn in Rotterdam off the overnight boat from London, at the very start of his journey, in the opening chapter of 'A Time of Gifts'. It was the 9th of December, 1933, and all Europe was before him.
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The writer Patrick Leigh Fermor was born #OTD 11 February 1915. In December 1933, at the age of 18, he set out to walk across Europe from London to Constantinople, a journey which took him four years. His story captures the continent in the deceptive peace before the Second World War. 1/3
February 11, 2026 at 8:19 AM
The writer Patrick Leigh Fermor was born #OTD 11 February 1915. In December 1933, at the age of 18, he set out to walk across Europe from London to Constantinople, a journey which took him four years. His story captures the continent in the deceptive peace before the Second World War. 1/3
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Sleeping under Blencathra, a red dragon guarding the final resting place of King Arthur and his most loyal knights
from my: "Folklore of the Lake District"
art by me
from my: "Folklore of the Lake District"
art by me
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Sleeping under Blencathra, a red dragon guarding the final resting place of King Arthur and his most loyal knights
from my: "Folklore of the Lake District"
art by me
from my: "Folklore of the Lake District"
art by me
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
February 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
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I changed the audio
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I changed the audio
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In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
Non-Elite Travel Writing and the Bibliography of British and Irish History - On History
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses several ways that the Bibliography of British and Irish History is contributing to his research on non-elite travel…
blog.history.ac.uk
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
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I always rather enjoy how Emerald Fennell clearly gives zero fucks about how other people think she should make films, and instead leans into going completely hatstand off the rails with her vision. All power to her, seriously.
Emily Brontë reinterpreted by Lord Flashheart: my review of "Wuthering Heights".
Wuthering lows | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“This is enough now,” a character declares, two hours into writer-director Emerald Fennell’s new Wuthering Heights. “I will not stand for this grotesque performance!” Well, you said it.
thecritic.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 8:54 AM
I always rather enjoy how Emerald Fennell clearly gives zero fucks about how other people think she should make films, and instead leans into going completely hatstand off the rails with her vision. All power to her, seriously.
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Friend in Vancouver just sent me this. This is a good advert
February 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Friend in Vancouver just sent me this. This is a good advert
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Le cloître de la cathédrale de Monreale près de Palerme, XIIe siècle. Un vrai bijou.
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Le cloître de la cathédrale de Monreale près de Palerme, XIIe siècle. Un vrai bijou.
Do click!
#StoneworkSunday
Cloister of #Medieval Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix-en-Provence (built over the #Roman forum) just has the most glorious array of 12th C #SundayStonework.
All time favourite has to be the twisty one at the corner topped with #lion of St Mark the Evangelist though (pls click).
Cloister of #Medieval Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix-en-Provence (built over the #Roman forum) just has the most glorious array of 12th C #SundayStonework.
All time favourite has to be the twisty one at the corner topped with #lion of St Mark the Evangelist though (pls click).
February 9, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Do click!
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Woman in Walthamstow: I lost my cat. She was 15. I can’t do it again. It’s too hard. She was like family. I loved her so much.
Her friend: I hear you. But is it better to have our favourite family members in our lives, even momentarily?
Pause.
Woman: Yes. Yes it is.
Her friend: I hear you. But is it better to have our favourite family members in our lives, even momentarily?
Pause.
Woman: Yes. Yes it is.
February 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Woman in Walthamstow: I lost my cat. She was 15. I can’t do it again. It’s too hard. She was like family. I loved her so much.
Her friend: I hear you. But is it better to have our favourite family members in our lives, even momentarily?
Pause.
Woman: Yes. Yes it is.
Her friend: I hear you. But is it better to have our favourite family members in our lives, even momentarily?
Pause.
Woman: Yes. Yes it is.
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They’ve only gone and pulled out Mozart’s own violin at this conference in Athens
February 9, 2026 at 9:58 AM
They’ve only gone and pulled out Mozart’s own violin at this conference in Athens