Year of the Tiger – Birmingham

Happy new year Birmingham! Welcome to the year of the Tiger – rooooaarrrr

Moseley festival open house art trail 2009

Remade fashion fair

Just paying my council tax online and thought I’d browse through the What’s On section of the council website as it often has information on some quirky things to do that are a bit different from my usual routine like something fun going on at the Nature Centre or events at historical buildings. With todays [...]

Knitting & ideas for a cabaret festival

Yay I am very excited as for christmas this year I received a knit my own beret and neck scarf kit.
This means I can attend a Stitches and Hos event in Kings Heath, Birmingham next Tuesday 27th January at the Hare and Hounds pub from 7:30pm.

It looks like great fun from the photos on facebook [...]

Learn mandarin through song

I spent a year working in China from summer 2003 – 2004 and always loved hearing how my students learnt loads more English vocabulary through songs, as well as western ideas and lifestyles in general coming across in the lyrics. I personally taught my students the lyrics to Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’, they loved the romantic [...]

The old west midands bus seat pattern

Finally I took a photo of the design on the back of the seats of some of the old travel west midlands buses.

I need to document things more as it is never long before things change in this city (Birmingham). I keep meaning to take a photo of the Marilyn Monroe sculpture on the roof [...]