Category Archives: Misc
My digital switchover
I wasn’t going to post this but the above is what happens when a pun comment and some beery late night Photoshopping collide. All those TV reminders about the analogue-to-digital switchover in September must have also seeped into my brainz. … Continue reading
Anyone else out there do what I do?
The shift in publishing from print to digital has changed my production journalist job beyond all recognition – a transition I blogged about in last year in RIP Sub-editing. Now, instead of ‘journalist’, I answer blogger or web editor or … Continue reading
Secret Stirchley, flashers and goodbye tearoom
After donating my teenage memory of ‘being flashed’ to the Secret Stirchley crew at the pop-up arts tearoom, this weekend my embarrassing memory became the stuff of a Stirchley promenade street theatre narrative. Performed by three actors as part of … Continue reading
Astley Book Farm and my crop of books
Today we had a sibling outing to Astley Book Farm, just past tongue-twisting village of Fillongley in North Warwickshire, for a feast of secondhand book shopping. All three of us are bookworms and like to mooch (that’s my bro above), … Continue reading
My kitchen unit gets a starring role (sort of)
From screen-grabbing myself on TV last weekend, I have now spotted my veritable old kitchen unit, which I rescued from a skip, on the London stage – in a play at the Royal Court, no less. It sort of gets … Continue reading
The day I was on the telly
So the premiere of Birmingham Opera Company’s Othello on BBC2 today went well (see previous post for the lowdown on me running away to join the opera). But while Pete seemed to be on camera loads – he’s also posted about … Continue reading
Birmingham Opera – my Othello diary
Some people run away and join the circus. Others drop out for a year-long ‘gap’ or a sabbatical. But many more of us have to fit in our dreams around our daily grind when an apposite opportunity presents itself. And … Continue reading
A tale of two furniture items
I get attached to stuff. Which is why it’s nice to know what happens to it come clear-out time. Where does it go? Who are the new owners? What will its new life be like? (I’m always getting told off … Continue reading
The Sound of Moselele
One of the great things I did last year was join Daz Wright’s Moselele group, aka ‘the second best ukelele group in Moseley’. Sometimes it ain’t pretty, sometimes you need to sing songs by Spandau Ballet or Bonnie Tyler, but … Continue reading
Black Swan Sunday
Today was one of those chilled blue Sunday afternoons, perfect for going walkabout with cameras: destination, the concrete jungle of central Birmingham. Scenes from Black Swan, which we saw yesterday at the Electric, must have embedded themselves inside my mind … Continue reading
