We’re running a competition on 5alist.com. It’s going to happen each week from here on out, and the winner will get featured on the homepage for a week as a prize. Yeah, it’s not much of a prize, but it was either that or some CDs I didn’t want, and I’d probably end up sending [...]
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I tried a new route to work yesterday. I was trying to maximise the proportion of the journey that I could spend along the canal, and minimise the amount of time spent dicing with death along Stratford Road. So I took Rusty to the bike shop for a bit of new kit, and some advice [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Bicycle, Birmingham, Cycling, Google Map, Personal
I was asked to write a letter of support for something today. Here’s what I wrote: I write in support of the proposed Children’s Radio Network in New Zealand. I campaigned for KidsNet in 1999-2000 when the Youth Radio Network was a hot topic on the NZ political landscape. While the aims of the teenage [...]
Categories: New Zealand
Tagged: Kiwi, Kiwi FM, New Zealand, Politics of New Zealand, Radio Network
Over the weekend, we had a couple from the Czech Republic couchsurfing at our house. Petr and Dasa arrived on Friday and I picked them up from the train station. I walked them to Bobbie’s work, and then she gave them a lift home (I was on the bike). Of all things, it turned out [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Travel
Tagged: Birmingham, Travel
