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Continue reading →: The perfect rose?
Sometimes, despite low light conditions and a shady rainy British summer evening sky, the perfect picture is made. This one is from a photo project idea I had to pick ‘A dozen roses’ from the front garden. It was delivered perfect from the camera on an ISO of 1600 and…
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Continue reading →: Yeah, what he said…
OK, this is possibly the laziest blog post in the world evah as I did want to document today’s trip to Ironbridge in Shropshire, an hour or so west of Birmingham, but fortunately the work has already been done perfectly well by my co-traveller. So, yeah, what he said: Visiting…
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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 the Inhabit programme of pop-up tearooms, the stories they had…
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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), plus there was the lure of a trip out into…
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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 a mention in one of the many reviews: “..likewise there’s…
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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 being on the telly – the sopranos always seemed to…
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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 so it was that 18 months ago, I signed up…
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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 for personifying things but that’s what happens when you get…
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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 it is always entertaining. Occasional extras include bongos, saxazoo, bass…
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Continue reading →: 18 practical content strategy tips in 8 minutes
If (like me) you have been tuning in to the rise of content strategy, but feel a bit lacking in actual practical know-how, then this collection of soundbites and voxpops – wrung by me from the mouths and Twitter accounts of the world’s leading content strategists – is truly the…
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