We’ve been working so hard on getting I So Wish up and running, that we thought we’d have a bit of fun. Stef grabbed the camera, and we met in Birmingham to actually go grant a wish. I So Wish user Benjaminbrum wished that someone would bring him cake at his office on Monday morning [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business
Tagged: Birmingham, Business, cake, isowish, wish
I went into Jibbering Records today for a coffee with a friend of mine to talk about an online music project. As usual, Rich (aka DJ Cro) was there, and he had just taken receipt of the new 7″ single he’s releasing by an artist called Serocee on his label Crate Escape Records (though this [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music,New Zealand
Tagged: Birmingham, Disc jockey, Music, New Zealand
We had another couchsurfer come and stay with us. An American, this time. Steve from the Bronx. Nice man, who had previously been in Vienna, but had spent a long time in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya introducing the clergy there to the idea of gay Christians. A man who’s up for a challenge, then. He [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Travel
Tagged: Birmingham, Travel
I went to see 8 sixteen 32 at the Birmingham Rep Theatre with Bobbie and her mum, who is staying with us on her way back to New Zealand. It was an amazing performance – four Grime artists trying to make it to the big time. We were there because my friend and former business [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music,Photography
Tagged: Birmingham, Music, Performing Arts, Photography, Theatre
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
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
I received my free walking and cycling map of Birmingham a couple of days ago, and yesterday I decided to try cycling to work using the canal tow path routes. It was a little tricky to figure out from the map, simply because everything’s in such a tiny scale. In particular, it was difficult to [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Birmingham, Grand Union Canal, Kings Norton, Stratford Upon Avon Canal
This is Rusty. He’s my current preferred mode of transportation. Or at least he would be, if he had one more component: a bicycle chain. He did have one when I bought him. He cost me £15 at the city markets. Worth every penny too. I’d had nothing but trouble with that other bike I [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Aston, Bicycle, Bicycle chain, Birmingham, Cycling, Personal, Sports, Sports Direct
Adam Regan presents the latest DJ team sensation to hit the Heath I DJ’d at the Hare and Hounds last night. There was a big crowd because Norman Jay was playing (somewhere) upstairs, it was a Friday night in Kings Heath, and where I was playing was out in the courtyard, where the smokers retreat. [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music
Tagged: Birmingham, Bugsy Malone, DJ, kings heath, Marvin Gaye, Music
