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Today Louise came across a double page spread in Visit Birmingham’s Pocket Guide for 2009. It basically gives you an example 48 hour itinerary for a weekend in Birmingham. Reading it reminded me just how much to do there is in Birmingham, but looking at it in more detail I considered; could I afford this [...]

This week I’ve been fiddling with the company website. I decided to simplify a bit and make it a bit cleaner. It’s very easy to get bored of your own site’s design ever so often, and usually I stress over it for weeks. This time we kept it simple, asked a few people to have [...]

For those of you following the war coverage on ITN of the Fazeley Dog War you will be sad to hear that recent peace talks have broken down. In an unprecidented move from the right a barbed olive branch was put before the Dog Owners Association, only to be declined due, not to the content [...]

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This morning a dog war has errupted at Fazeley Studios. Due to some anonymous complain(s) the landlord decreed that dogs are to be barred from the building. A procession of emails have come forth, mostly from outraged dog owners protecting their constitutional right to bear dogs, as well as some people supporting the ban. I [...]

Last night we visited the annual beer festival at Bromsgrove Rugby club. For the first time for a few years the weather held out and it was fine, suitable for sitting outside and enjoying a few drinks and a bit of grub out on the grass. A fantastic selection was available but sadly I think [...]

It must be friday. This morning’s ‘team meeting’ finished witha  discussion about Google’s Chrome OS, potentially released next year. It’s supposed to be a lightweight OS based on Linux ideal for notebooks. Inevitably this led to the usual round of ‘Vista Bashing’ where we sit around Kam’s computer, click ‘Internet explorer’ then run a book [...]

My plan is to get people collaborating on stories online, with multiple branches from one initial chapter… For 5 years now I have been writing collaborative fiction with two good friends of mine. We’ve stuck rigidly to one per year, around 1000 words per ‘chapter’ and a two week turnaround on each and every chapter. [...]

Myself and Gavin have spent most of today in Hockley, outside the Big Peg filming the opening of the new Farmers’ market called 24 carrots. Similar and including many of the stalls from Moseley farmers’ market such items on show and for sale include: – Hand made jams and chutneys – Home made tarts – [...]