Daily Archives: December 16, 2007

Have you seen this woman? 0

Deirdre is a former Marks and Spencer mannequin who had been quietly working out her retirement at Camellotment, the garden plot out the back of Cannon Hill Park tended by our friends Craig, Robson and Val (to my knowledge, the only allotment in Birmingham with its own blog). Before moving to Camellotment, Deirdre had lived [...]

Intellectual tourism 1

First, can I just say OH MY GOD IT’S COLD! I wasn’t expecting to feel it quite as much as I am. I’ve had three winters to acclimatise myself to sub-zero temperatures, and New Zealand was hardly in the midst of a tropical summer while I was there, but for some reason, coming back has [...]