NickScribbler

Writer. Therapist. Cricketer. Cricket blog -

[NickScribbler @NickScribbler]

Friends, psych colleagues: I have finally managed to publish my first academic paper... do have a read if it's your thing.

'I still haven't found what I'm looking for: Early relational–developmental deficits and the search for repair through the erotic'

https://t.co/9A02aIIMT1

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@stevegreen39 @WisdenAlmanack @WG_RumblePants @StoneDunk @LiamCromar Excellent stuff, Steve. But I'm amazed to read about the decline in the number of entries - such a unique opportunity to get in the book.

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@WisdenCricket @Yas_Wisden @cameronponsonby Excellent work Yas. Good hosting, nice style, good interaction with the punters.

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@M_H_Taylor Some proper country stalwarts there - and Walsh was phenomenal. Surprised Dev got so many.

And No.7 did well to stick with the county game after the success of Down By The Water

[Anthony McGowan @anthony_mcgowan]

Birdlands out today (possibly my 55th?). I think it might be my best. A crow, a Jackdaw, and a pigeon, each damaged, on a journey to find salvation. Think Watership Down, about birds, as written by Sam Beckett. Fly my beauties, fly! (Except they can't fly, so they have to walk…)

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First game of the new season. At least 45 years of this palaver. More bandages every year - but still very excited.

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@CricketopiaCom If it was my choice, walking would be banned. Every decision the umpire's.

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@frankwatson58 @WisdenCricket @WorcsCCC Brilliant Frank.

[Hughes-on-the-Wold @NotThatHughes]

When you see your taxes being spent on feeding children instead of bombing them.

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I started thinking about unconditional love, then I started writing about it, and it was quite hard to stop. It seemed simple at first and then not so simple by the end. I’m sure it’s meant to be the other way around…
Is unconditional love even possible?

https://t.co/FIPXWqTjg4

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@fredfertang @jimmy9 @NorthantsCCC A lot of cricket is guesswork spoken with conviction!

[Lancashire Cricket @lancscricket]

How is that one? @jimmy9 🔥🔥🔥

🌹 #RedRoseTogether

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Things you love to see. Glad Key and McCullum will be keeping an eye on the counties this year...

[hacky sack @h4ckys4ck]

If those astronauts go around the moon and can find no trace of Lisa Stansfield’s baby then I really think that’s it, we’ve exhausted all lines of enquiry

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

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@Keirwales Ditto. I think he writes excellently - thoughtful, rigorous, clear - but I was blocked years ago for some incredibly minor quibble, which was a real shame. His Substack is very good though, and I just keep quiet on there😄

[JEFF @jeffisrael25]

let me get this straight

a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

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@teachrobotslove Stunning. You really can write. It reminds me of the poem The Raincoat. Different pace, different intensity. But same soul.
https://t.co/ObtyD9VgGu

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@sciencegirl This looks an unlikely place for a phone box...

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@SimonBrundish Yes, broadly. Probably scope for a bit of an edit (it's a touch repetitious & could do with a few hyphens to aid comprehension😁) but the building of the layers of the argument and the fundamental freshness v capacity dichotomy is clear. A nice insight into a world I didn't know.