It isn’t often you discover a little jewel on your doorstep. Shire Oak nature reserve is hidden away, squeezed on all sides by housing and major roads and yet it is a tranquil and largely unspoilt spot. As a disused quarry it looks like some effort has gone into emphasising the good bits, the walk…
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Getting There: 197/365
So the Boy has returned home and the house appears a little quiet. It gets easy to become used to having him around and he has been a real help in my workshop when my one handed-ness got in the way, which was frequently. Having spent a couple of hours down there this afternoon his absence was…
Warsaw => Walsall: More flowers in the Guerilla Garden
Yesterday we finally got on to plant new flowers on the patch that had been dug up about 2 weeks ago. It’s looking good, isn’t it?
We also did some weeding, spread some slug pellets out and did our best to kill the ants eating the dahlias!
New plants have been donated by…
The Mad Old Baggage Goes Cycling: Summer Cycling
I took the wrong turn today on my ride. Instead of turning towards Park Lime Pits at Longwood Bridge I decided I fancied a tour of Sandwell Valley and went in the opposite direction. Bad move. I should have remembered that we’ve had biblical amounts of rain. The tow-path was in a dreadful state….
Freemans Common Health Centre on Wikimapia
Loyal reader and Skank Antonio residing Brownhillian exile, Porktorta has found out some information about the health centre I snapped in Leicester last Thursday. I couldn’t do this without top readers like him…
Warsaw => Walsall: Cycling along the canals: Walsall-Wednesfield-Darlaston-Walsall
I can’t seem to be able to free myself from that pile of work brought from Poland so all the running & cycling escapades are whimsical and unplanned, occurring when I happen to finish something or am too annoyed to work anymore. Anyway, it has got its merits as there are more things to…
Warsaw => Walsall: Cycling along the canals: Walsall-Wednesfield-Darlaston-Walsall
Getting There: 120/365 At Last………
The theme of my blog was going to centre around a walk Linda and I took and a discovery that truly shocked me but I will leave that one for another day. So this is advance warning of being shocked.
In a truly “Hold the Front Page Moment?”, events that occurred this evening deserve to be the…
Getting There: 116/365
I am posting up early tonight as I found a stash of my homebrew from Christmas and never having sampled a vintage ale from my own hand I am getting ready for an appreciation evening.
Today we received a communication from the WM Police. After careful consideration they were not going to accept…
Getting There: 115/365 It’s All Lies M’Lud
Shock Horror, the West Midlands Police tell lies. Brave words I hear you mutter. Last month, the listeners of BBC WM heard Superintendent Russell tell Adrian Goldberg that It was critical to understand what had happened in my case. He stated that the Policy was clear and that the Police would go…
Getting There: 99/365
In the spirit of Nena who espoused on the subject of 99 luftballons I will commemorate my 99th blog with suitably hairy armpits.
I am so pleased to be able to blog in a positive manner for what must be the first time in ages. Today, for me, has at least been peaceful and panic free. Not that the…
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