We’re running a competition on 5alist.com. It’s going to happen each week from here on out, and the winner will get featured on the homepage for a week as a prize. Yeah, it’s not much of a prize, but it was either that or some CDs I didn’t want, and I’d probably end up sending [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
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
I was asked to write a letter of support for something today. Here’s what I wrote: I write in support of the proposed Children’s Radio Network in New Zealand. I campaigned for KidsNet in 1999-2000 when the Youth Radio Network was a hot topic on the NZ political landscape. While the aims of the teenage [...]
Categories: New Zealand
Tagged: Kiwi, Kiwi FM, New Zealand, Politics of New Zealand, Radio Network
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
I’m in Manchester at a music industry conference thing called UnConvention, and I’ve been hanging out and going to some pretty amazing gigs with lots of really interesting people. Musicians, independent record label people, music managers and so on. There are quite a few people here I have met before, and it’s been really good [...]
Categories: Music
I've been told I'm hard to buy for. I suppose that's because I don't really need much of anything. I'm not that big into owning stuff. Except records. Records make me happy. If you want to make me happy, buy me a record.
With that in mind, here's a link to my Amazon Wishlist
