Avocets on the Blackwater Estuary this morning

Good spot for a picnic. Three Castle Head, Mizen Peninsula, West Cork

Australia all out 209. Kagiso Rabada gets five-for-20. Reminded me of Michael Holding at the Oval 1976. We’ll now see if this is a flat track or not.

Except Smith promptly has a yahoo at Markham of all people and here he is trudging back to the pavilion woo hoo

South Africa did well at Lords this morning but the Aussies are fighting back at 146 for 4

Sign up for a week's painting in the French Pyrénées.
Katy Papineau will be running a residential course on "Atmospheric Colour in Figurative Painting" at Clos Mirabel this November 1-8
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The Times today has an article about my local The Pineapple (because our Prime Minister likes to drink there). That's me in the checked jacket at the bar. Isn't it a coincidence I should be there when they took the shot?

Let's have Herzog as Zizek since they've already met on this glorious podcast
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Bad bird pics. Every year a family of very small grebes winters outside our marina. I suppose they're just little grebes, but it's the sea and conditions are pretty harsh, so I sometimes wonder if they're black-necked or Slavonian. Can never get a good enough shot #birds #bad #pics

Last of my Paris lectures on "Thoughts and Things" at 2pm today. This time it's on "Confusions about Consciousness". Mary and zombies will both make an appearance.

My 2021 book offers a new(ish) slant on this at the end (but did we talk about this once in Warwick?)

Do I qualify?

I got an infra-red cam to see who's around in our garden at night

Why take it like that? I meant "calculate" as a generic term—to cover all cases where it's worth checking the truth of the answer that first comes to mind. Over the millennia, scholarly humans have invented myriad tools for this purpose, varying in accuracy and arduousness. Choose accordingly.

Enjoying Paris—and starting the first of four weekly lectures at the Collège de France on Monday

If you are in Paris next Monday from 2pm to 3pm—and the following three Mondays at the same time—you will be welcome at my lectures on "Thoughts and Things" at the Collège de France (where I will seek "to understand minds via the role they play in guiding us through a complex world")