Chris Hunter

Our leading run-scorer in the 2025 County Championship...

James Bracey passed 1,000 first-class runs for the second consecutive season!

#BecomeGlorious

Love that series. I'm behind though, Green Man's War is my next one and Holiday is on my Christmas list!

The Howling Mountain by Anna Kemp, third Goblyn Wood book. I got the first book in this series at Bert's a while ago and have really enjoyed the whole trilogy!

It explains a lot of those things influencing Link's dream and the linked game of Oracles ends with him sailing away, perfectly setting up Link's Awakening.

Small Island by Andrea Levy. Quite possibly the best book I've read this year, and made me cry several times!

Playing DND with 9 year
olds comes in two flavors

1. Trying to find ways to
resolve things and make the Zombie our friend

2. Doing things that are
recognized as war crimes

It's not what's in Hyrule Historia, but I'm adamant the Oracles fit between A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening. They make far more sense there than after LA.
A more personal one is that Link and Zelda in Ocarina of Time are siblings. No proof, I just like telling the story that way.

And mine! Do you think Bert could call my boss and explain…?

I cannot stress how much this sums up my feelings today.

No. Direct sequel in Link's Awakening. Link Between Worlds and Echoes of Wisdom directly reuse assets. Four Swords Adventures and Cadence of Hyrule deliberately evoke. It gets plenty of attention.

My son (8) has designed a cloud dungeon, not like other sky dungeons but actually the inside of a cloud, so the rooms keep moving around, similar to Minish Cap's Cloud Tops or the Thunderhead in Skyward Sword but going a lot further. It's really cool!

I think Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson was the last book to have that effect on me.

Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess and Spirit Tracks all have great mini games. MM's archery galleries and goron racing, TP's snowboarding or rapids ride and ST's whip race and Pirate Hideout all stand out.

Why do sports channels not offer an option to turn off commentary? I would regularly very happily watch cricket and snooker with the sounds of the match just creating a lovely background hum.

Specials menu featuring ‘The Legend of Zelda’-themed drinks, at Crescent Moon Coffee in Lincoln, Nebraska

Walked into this coffee shop this morning and it has a Zelda-themed specials menu

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

A good photo by any standards, but given the equipment of the day a sensational one. Surrey allrounder Alan Peach loses his middle stump to Warwickshire's Harry Howell in the drawn Championship match at The Oval, June 16th 1927

A wooden bench surrounded by fallen leaves, outside a green door and stone walls.

An old Manor House glimpsed through trees, with a foreground of grass carpeted in fallen leaves.

A stone wall with an apple tree in front of it.

Fallen leaves of yellow and brown scattered across green grass

More autumn rambles…

I was going for The Aldi Curiosity Shop, myself...

Notts County v Oldham Athletic at Meadow Lane in Nottingham. #92 #ShoeSelfie

I'd love to see the Beetle brought back. Doesn't need to be motion controls, it could just be controlled with the control stick, but it is basically a drone for Link to use and I'd love to see it utilised in a different/new way!

This properly brought a smile to my face! And yes, I was planning to contact you today to ask about it! Order placed, how lovely it is when a bookshop brings you exactly what you want when you want it.

Autumn rambles…

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This morning I searched "Do SAD lamps work?" and got the AI response, "Yes. If you plug them in, they should work."

I have to repeat what I said at this time last year ... Now that the season is done a thank you to all the BBC local radio commentators who have provided a quality backdrop to my summer and also to the increasingly professional county video streams which keep us in touch and entertained

I've been desperate for her to be the match winner so we can have the headline "Cokayne is the heroine".

A Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons. It's the third book of A Chorus of Dragons, which is a brilliant series. I urgently need to get hold of book 4, so I'll be getting in touch with my favourite indie bookshop as soon as I get paid next week!

We are running a Prayer Day today, so I'm quietly reading The Nicene Creed by Jared Ortiz and Daniel A. Keating!

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

"There's people who will cook food in their own homes and take it out and feed people who are less fortunate... That's patriotism. That's love for your community. And that's standing up for British values."

Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social on BBC Politics North this weekend.