June 29th – Spotted while I was on my way to calli at the Co-op on the way home: This wonderful frog, who appeared to be laughing.
I have no idea if frogs laugh or indeed, find anything funny. But this gorgeous creature posed for photos under bike light with the most wonderful facial expression.
I was very pleased to see it – not seen many frogs this year.
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June 22nd – Spotted in the sale/want ads on display in a newsagent’s window in Melbourne.
This has to be a piss take.
If you can’t work out why, say it out loud…
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June 17th – ‘Great job meeting people wearing a suit’ they said. It’ll be fun they said.
Spotted in Walsall, just between Tesco, Macdonalds and Walsall College at Lunchtime.
No, I have no idea either…
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May 1st – Horses are curious beasts. Just off the McLean Way at Goscote, home to many a tethered horse, I saw this one fast asleep on it’s side.
Horses often sleep lying on their sides like this, and it’s perfectly normal – however, it’s something that unless you’re around the animals a fair bit, you don’t realise. Sometimes people not knowing think the animal has died. In the vast majority of instances, it’s just a horse, sleeping, like this one.
Lying there, I watched it for a while, until it grunted in it’s slumber and farted loudly. Bless it.
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April 22nd – The floating market, despite it’s diminutive size was lovely. Ice creams were had, and I browsed canal ephemera and craft products for an hour or two.
But what made the event – and what always does with these things – were the dogs.
Boater dogs are the best dogs.
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April 12th – Mindful Gifts secondhand shop in Darlaston, lunchtime: A selection of every kind of wooden walking stick you could wish for, each with a history and story known only to itself.
This is a wonderful shop and always a delight to mooch around – so much more interesting than a normal charity shop: It’s frenetic, frantic and stacked to the rafters with… Interesting stuff. All in aid of folk with dementia, so what’s not to love?
If I were to need a stick, I’d definitely have the one with the bicycle bell.
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April 4th – Returning from Birmingham, into a downpour that was totally expected at Shenstone. An hour I waited in the cold just for a cessation in the rain, as there was a headwind and I had no waterproof trousers.
At least I got some work done. Thanks to the mobile internet…
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February 18th – Returning from a work trip to Stafford, I got off the train mid day at Coseley, to ride back to work. On the station platform there, there was a poster advertising cheap returns to … Coventry.
These three pictograms are apparently what the City of Coventry has to offer.
Well, the cathedral’s in a bit of a state, can’t find the penny farthing hire and as for nude women riding horses…
Can a city sue? Asking for a friend.
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December 15th – I popped up to the Christmas Market at Chasewater Railway, hoping to catch a little of the festive spirit, and despite the weather putting a dampener on things, it was actually a great event. Plenty of stalls with interesting stuff and some decent entertainment coupled with a decent butty in the cafe.
The rain, however, was relentless.
You can tell it’s a Black Country event when they sell exotic flavours of pork scratchings, though – although the apparent tautological pointlessness of bacon flavour had me a bit nonplussed…
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December 5th – A bit further towards home, the lavishly ostentatious nature of Shelfield’s (presumably civic) Christmas lights amazes and delights, as ever.
I have no idea who or why someone chucks a short string of colour-change lights over one single tree on the Four Crosses Road open space every year. It’s one tree in maybe 10. Seemingly random, this minimal festivity always amuses me.
Merry Christmas – but don’t get too excited, kids!
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