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Continue reading →: Inadvertently climbing a mountain – photo essay
I’m a walker not a climber but high on Gwen Moffat’s autobiography Space Below My Feet, the mountains of Snowdonia beckoned and at Easter we headed for Birmingham-on-Sea: Barmouth. You know that moment at the start of a walk? When you aren’t really planning on anything more than just going…
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Continue reading →: Stirchley High Street Stories told through different lenses
Stirchley High Street Stories was a community photography project which ran from March to June 2019. Last night it launched its popup exhibition and newspaper at Artefact in Stirchley. The gallery runs to Saturday, with a print run of 100 newspapers for visitors to view or take away. The project The…
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Continue reading →: Stirchley retail park – deadline and suggestions for comments
You have until this Thursday 9 May to submit comments on the preliminary planning application by Seven Capital. Link: https://eplanning.birmingham.gov.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorer/ApplicationSearch.aspx Search ref number: 2018/10370/PA As someone with an ongoing interest in Stirchley’s development and being part of SuperStirchley’s Lidl campaign, I have submitted my comments (once a-bloody-gain) on the outline plans for…
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Continue reading →: A purple haze of bluebells at Clent Hills
Just back from a five-mile guided walk around the Clent Hills to see large swathes of English bluebells – a darker, more delicate and aromatic flower than the invasive Spanish bluebell that has taken over my own back garden and which I pluck out, to no avail. Adrian, our National…
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Continue reading →: CLIPS: Birmingham Collage Collective launches its first exhibition
Having been a member of Stirchley Collage Club for the past year and with some pieces shown in a couple of open call shows, I’m both pleased and proud to announce that I’ll be part of Birmingham Collage Collective’s first exhibition opening next week. I’ll be joining a bunch of…
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Continue reading →: Killing Facebook softly – and asking how can I sell them my data instead?
This year I’ve been trying to form better habits through what I jokingly refer to as my ‘Analogue Columns Lifestyle Planner Tool’ – basically a daily set of columns in a notebook for ticking off stuff I want to do more/less of. Most things have been going pretty well –…
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Continue reading →: Nine years with MoseleleUkulele groups – they ain’t pretty but they are pretty entertaining. Nine years ago this week I went to the very first Moselele, set up by Daz Wright “for people who live in or can be bothered to travel to Moseley in Birmingham”. Since there, there have been (*does vague maths*)…
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Continue reading →: Country to city solo walk – North Worcestershire to West MidlandsThis Al Humphreys‘ inspired microadventure has been on my list of to dos for a while. His challenge to city folk in need of adventure is to catch a train out to the country and walk back home. So simple, yet why haven’t I done it? The thing that has…
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Continue reading →: My goals for 2019My goals for 2019 have mostly developed out of my sabbatical break in 2016-17. But there’s also a few random things in there for fun, such as developing independent toes (yes, you read that right). It’s a longish list, mostly so I can get all the ideas in my head…
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Continue reading →: Return to solo backpackingI’ve just discarded my initial 600 words on why it was such a challenge to get on a plane on my own and fly to Fuerteventura this winter. The less angsty, need-to-know summary is that I’ve been pretty conflicted about travelling in recent years. I was a frequent backpacker when…
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Fiona Cullinan 