Chris Hawkins

Former Maths teacher at Thomas Deacon Academy. Likes Scrabble, Lego, jigsaws, reading, watching TV, cycling

[Chris Hawkins @chawky756]

After Denmark’s corner at 26m10s, and when England regained possession at 26m30s, we completed ***54*** consecutive passes up to 29m10s. The best we’ve ever played!!!

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@bbctms Is 317 for the first wicket followed by 121 for the next nine wickets (a difference of -196), the biggest ever difference in Tests?

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Bortolero’s pit stop at the Singapore GP; watch the front right tyre nearly cause an extremely bad accident just as a Red Bull is coming down the pit lane at 80km/h. If the mechanic who rushes to recover it had been a second or two slower, or a metre or two further over… 😮

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Can anyone (meteorologists?) explain this cloud, which looks remarkably like a Portuguese Man O’War jellyfish?! Seen over Peterborough UK, mid-afternoon, 11/5/25

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@PilotAlgar25257 @tyrannideris I live in Peterborough, that’s false. There are enormous numbers of swans right in the middle of the city near Town Bridge/Charters, and more on the rowing lake and at Ferry Meadows

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@VictoriaCoren @BBCTwo In the sequence round, the ‘change 4, change 3’ etc, question, did he definitely say CHANCE? I thought he might have said CHANTS, ie repeating one of the previous words in the sequence, which sometimes is the right answer.

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@StudyMaths @CantabKitty 125 first go, 132 second go. Difficulty curve defo needs addressing. Enjoyable though!

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@ThomasNL12 @gunsnrosesgirl3 8m

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@SkyNews @ReemAmirIbrahim @AytonImarn Terrible hosting of the debate by Kay Burley, needed to step in earlier, then just left them talking loudly over each other as she signed off at the top of the hour, whereupon the two women shut up and beamed like Cheshire cats. I am lost for words (unlike the pair of them)

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@fouldsy147 what’s the low repetitive hum/moan in the background of the snooker? Can you hear it in the comm box?

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@jackbern23 @taskmaster I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to discover you Jack, these stats are right up my street!

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Here is a Lego MOC I made using just the pieces in the 2021 set ‘World Map’, the colours look random but in fact they are the digits of pi *in base 8*! (Key at bottom). The background is not quite complete as the world map is 8x5 baseplates, this is 7x6 :)

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This sentence has five three-letter words, six four-letter words, seven five-letter words, five six-letter words and one eight letter word.

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I wonder if anyone cycled further than me today to watch the climax of Stage 4 of the Tour of Britain? :)
(left home 8.15am, home at 8.30pm, just under 8 hours in the saddle)
@TourofBritain

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@nedboulting Enjoying your and David’s commentary immensely. One minor quibble, when you said the breakaway got 25% more difficult to deal with (when it went from three to four riders), in fact it got 33% more difficult :)

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@TourofBritain @Jakerscott14 @callumormiston @finn_croc @stockman_abram The commentator said (when the breakaway went from three to four riders) that it got 25% more difficult to deal with. 33% surely?!

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@ukscrabble Go Jack, Nick and Lewis!

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@dottymcl hi Dotty I came on your show on National Scrabble Day a couple of weeks ago talking about my favourite ever play, ASTROGEOLOGISTS. I forgot to mention I made a cross-stitch of the final board (cross-stitch is another of my interests) :)

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@CantabKitty COO-loam

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@jimororke Yes she is!