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Cricket scorer, statistician and 'calculating cardinal' (The Guardian). Cheltenham Civil Service CC, @gloscricket.bsky.social men, @somersetccc.bsky.social women. Also board games, trains: all the cool things.
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Our latest webinar is LIVE! Thanks to Hannah Thompson-Radford and Matt Kingdom for their paper “(un)forgotten voices- exploring the history of women’s cricket in Somerset”:

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@petegcricket.bsky.social I saw your request for dates of birth for women domestic players. For the UK are they current players? Presumably none are from last year's regional teams?

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If He’s 10 foot tall, presumably He doesn’t need a ladder to paint the corners.

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I dreamt that David Gower was quizzing me to name all the years he toured Australia with England. On waking I thought "hold on, those answers were wrong, yet he said they were right". I think a little bit less of both of us now.

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I asked DeepSeek three questions: - How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims? - Is Taiwan part of China? - What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s? Here are DeepSeek's answers:

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Happy Cricketmas / Creasemas!

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I worked on BBC Horrible Histories, and wrote some of the Stupid Deaths sketches Without doubt, my faves were Ancient Greek intellectuals: e.g, Empedocles who jumped in an active volcano trying to become a god… Or Philitas of Kos who starved due to obsessively needing to correct grammar errors👇

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I've got my Angel for the top of the Christmas tree.

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The Railway Series by Rev Awdry. Obviously.

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This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

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