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Today β€” 26 June 2024Main stream

Worcestershire v Surrey, Essex v Durham, and more: county cricket – live

26 June 2024 at 06:45
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Ali ponders England’s chances:

Good morning Tim Maitland! β€œSpent more time than I’d care to admit trying to decide who to watch now that Yorkshire have been so inconsiderate as to win inside three days. I’ve plumped for Essex v Durham on the basis that it’s the most significant in terms of the championship itself and that I should at least get a spirited rearguard action from second-placed Essex.

”Judging from the second over of the day Dean Elgar is not going to last long facing Callum Parkinson and a Kalahari Desert of rough outside the left-handers off stump. And the nightwatchman Jamie Porter has gone for 3. A beautiful ball from Matthew Potts nipped in a fraction to literally take the top of off: it would have done for better batsmen.Essex 43 for 2.

”It’s something to do while I get the char siu and poached eggs on rice ready.” Sounds delicious. While you’re at it, I think buginabreeze was up for a lunch order…

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Yesterday β€” 25 June 2024Main stream

A Greyhound of a Girl review – Roddy Doyle story is beautiful take on childhood grief

25 June 2024 at 06:00

Heart-lifting adaptation of Doyle’s children’s novel follows cheeky 12-year-old Mia as she faces the loss of her beloved granny

Roddy Doyle’s novel for kids, about childhood grief, has been turned into a gorgeous family animation with a big heart, charming without being too sugary. It’s a gentle introduction to death with its non-religious message that in the end, when someone dear to us dies, what we are left with is their love, and what they have shown us about how to love.

A cheeky, flame-haired 12-year-old Dublin girl called Mary, voiced by Mia O’Connor, wants to be a famous chef when she grows up. The movie opens with Mary competing for the summer camp at an elite catering school. When the snooty judges criticise her tarte tartin, Mary’s grandmother Emer (Rosaleen Linehan) lets rips at β€œthe eejits with the clipboards”. Back at home, granny Emer falls ill and is rushed to hospital. The news is not good and, what with her granny being sick, plus hormones, Mary is raging. There’s real warmth in the scenes at home: her exhausted, worried mum Scarlett (Sharon Horgan) doesn’t cook (β€œthis spag bol is about as Italian as Bono”), dad is cheerful taxi driver Paddy (Brendan Gleeson), and there’s two galumphing brothers; everyone drinks endless cups of tea.

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