english plumbing

when I went out I saw the hole in the Bosworth Drive bus stop roof has been fixed
I took the 97 bus to LIDL at Tile Cross and did some window shopping opposite

KAV'S bathroom and tile centre: "At our showrooms you can expect to find the very latest in bathrooms furnishings. Our extensive range of fittings and suites will make it easy for you to mix and match for any style that you require or to choose our unique designs to make the bathroom of your dreams. "



and round the back is a private road

on the corner of which is KAV'S yard


I got thr url pf the back of his van KAV'S bathroom and tile centre

a good irish nameKavanagh Family
The origin and early history of the Kavanagh clan and family. Details of notable clan members.


and this is the door to the trade counter

32 East Meadway,
Tile Cross,
Birmingham,
B33 0AP.

Tel : 0121 783 4470

and then I went to

Bains 42 East Meadway Birmingham West Midlands B33 0AP

because what I really wanted was the new Radio Times | Magazine starting on saturday
"radio times" bbc - Google Search

the parade of shops seen from the 97 bus stop
near by Kitts Green, Birmingham property house prices from Nestoria

back on Bosworth Drive a newly inflated nisse (elf) waved to me from its igloo

electric neighbours

seen from my kitchen window

visit to Sutton Coldfield

To warm up I walked the stairs three floors up and ten down

all tags gone and glass repaired

except on the first floor
note the fine terrazzo on the first flight of stairs - the rest are painted concrete.

I walked past the medical centre to snap a new electric neighbour


I had set out about thrity minutes before sunset

and waited nearly 25 minutes for the 71 bus which took more than an hour to get to Sutton Coldfield

and which dropped me off in Sutton Coldfield

by the steps leading to the library entrance
the Local Studies and Reference Library is on the second floor

with directories and electoral rolls AKA Voters lists

and from before my period:- tithe apportionments
note rate books exist up to 1912
the rest probably burned in a 1960ies fire.

Henvry VIII attributed to Holbein

this used to be a royal borough and idnependant since the sixteent century and is now part of the City Birmingham, which means taht the mayoral robes and regalia are now museum pieces.

It was much quicker to go home bus 104 via the centre of Birmingham then 97

and when I got back more new tags in the entrance

my fridge was empty

so I decided to go to LIDL at the Macadown first and the markets later.
spell check Mackadown - Google Search

I don't usually go to this bus stop when going away from Chelmsley Wood,
but having recorded the mess of broken glass, I felt that I should snap the repairs. It is a mystery to me why they don't install plastic which needs a good kicking before it breaks.

The only snow we shall see on Bosworth Drive this Christmas I think.

At least the rubbish bins get emptied often - note the fire proof metal liner typical of local handwork.

Seen from the LIDL car park, the new steel frame of the replacement building for the demolished BSA Machine Tools offices - will be another retail outlet?



UT/2004/014022 Birmingham City Council N/03490/04/FUL
Demolition Of Existing Offices And Part Factory,
Erection Of New Bingo And Social Club.
Refurbishment Of Remainder Of Factory For Industrial Purposes, Formation Of New Site Access Road, Parking Areas And Associated External Works
BSA Machine Tools Works,
Mackadown Lane, Birmingham,
West Midlands * PPG25/TAN15 - Request for FRA
mackadown bsa bingo - Google Search: "Debt-ridden BSA Machine Tools thought its number was up, until it hit on the idea of selling off part of its Mackadown Lane, Kitts Green factory. "


Inside LIDL this weeks special offer half price green grocery so I will not make a trip to the markets today.

I returned home and after getting off the 97 bus with my laden trolley and two bags, I stopped for a moment on the pavement, because I often see this van parked close by beneath my windows on Bosworth Drive, so a snap was a quick way of recording this URL http://www.tripodcrest.ltd.uk/ in order to satisfy my curiosity about this neighbourhood when I got in.

Tripod Crest Ltd.: "was established in 1982 and has since become one of the UK's leading road planing and surfacing labour suppliers.

Recent years have seen the introduction of additional services with the Tripod Crest business.

The ability to provide extensive resources, often at very short notice, has enhanced our reputation for efficiency and flexibility over the years.

Our operatives are skilled across the full range of surfacing activities: motorways, trunk roads, housing estate roads, footpaths and private car parks,

We can provide full machine gangs, handlay gangs or any number of skilled operatives to supplement existing gangs - including Paver Drivers, Screwmen, Roller Drivers, Tractaire Drivers, Chipping Operators and General Surfacing Operatives.

Operatives can be hired daily, weekly or on a long-term basis. Terms can also be agreed to provide labour on a 'lodge' basis if required.

A fleet of Bitelli and Marini Pavers is also available for daily, weekly or long-term hire. The "

water colours and the River Cole

a detail

and it was time to paint for the first time in about 55 years

all the cheapest artist materials I have saved up - from LIDL mostly

a left over white enamalled steel shelf is my drawing board

The brushes were mostly made in China
I used the big brush to wet the paper and put a blue wash on, and experimented with "wet on wet" - Google Search
The pound shop paper was too cheap and began to break up
I did it wrong anyway see How to Stretch Watercolor Paper



time for my walk

a study in grass clumps for the painters notebook


I went for this walk just after sunset northwest of Meron House and down this path to the River Cole, and when I reached the bottom, it was time to put down my nordic walking poles, and take my LIDL artists rucksack off, and get out my Sony handicam:-

back in Foxglove Avenue

the nearly new moon was getting brighter





I walked on along the riverbank path and came back to the videophone Sony Ericsson 800

the River Cole was very full (taken with exposure on auto)

exposure + 2.0


using the joy stick





exposure - 2.0









I crossed over the River Cole by Babbs Mill and the footpath in the Kingfisher Project looked really bad with all these puddles.

I didn't like the look of that cloud, with the wind in my face it was coming towards me,
and turned left across this iron bridge

back to reality in Sheldon Hall Avenue - I always wondered what was inside this window seen from the 97 buses.

Now it is spotting with rain - or soon to drizle

and the 97 bus stop on East Meadway
the distant green traffic light is by LIDL at the Mackadown where I got my Nordic Walking sticks and rucksack





what a contrast in Bosworth Drive in North Solihull, the good neighbour entertaining the community and the aftermath of drink and mental breakdown.

trees rains and trains in birmingham and walsall

walking the stairs again

all ten floors of Merton House
JUST FOR EXERCISE
3 upwards then 10 down

when the 97 got into town they were still clearing up in the market.




click her and scroll down to see handicam snaps of these blue angels


Bullring Debenhams plastic trees now have fairy lights.


I had to go back outside because the videophone froze
and I had to reboot it by taking the battery out.
sony "best pic" phone - Google Search
Best Pic shoot mode (captures 9 frames in succession) but locked up a couple times if I was slow in saving my chosen pictures.





Debenhams - Birmingham, Upper Mall East, Bullring, Birmingham ...Upper Mall East, Bullring Birmingham, West Midlands, England: ... Though the company dates back to 1778, the Debenhams name first appeared in 1813

Bullring CHRISTMAS AT THE CENTRE: "SHOP UNTIL 10PM - From 4th to 22nd December, Bullring will stay open an extra two hours until 10pm from Monday to Friday. "

on the first bridge
from Lord of the Rings
and the second bridge into the Pallisades Mall and New Street Station


where I took a green train to Walsall

Walsall station platform 2 and 3

not so much going on in Walsall



so I decided to go home

massive coal train passing by Walsall platfom 2

and I met this photographer and train spotter waiting for a special train to come by


I did not catch the first train back to Birmingham

at last the train spotters delight in recording history - four old electric locomotives being towed to Long Marston to be stored by the Ministry of Defence



back in Birmingham you can see the two bridges I crossed earlier











I am heading for these newly discovered steps



and I nearly dropped my videophone
whilst the BEST PIC (tm) took its 9 snaps in quick succession





turning around towards St Martins, through the Bullring and to the 97 bus stop by Allison Street































looking back from the balcony
























new graffiti when I got back and climbed the seven flights - with a stop on the fifth to get my breath back
























Christkindl Glühwein von Lidl spiced wine mulled by microwave
lidl gluhwein - Google Search
I was hungry when I got in and ate this whilst I waited 40 minutes for the steamed rice and cabbage

handicam balcony brunch and later

about 80 years old and from my childhood


no leaves means more to see - housing replacing schooling


at




and below









my kitchen window








and much later

icBirmingham - Birmingham Mail
evening delivery - "birmingham evening mail" - Google Search

wet football
late doctoring

Bosworth Drive and blue angels

brunch time with the handicam

later

in the eveningwhich gave me the urge to go in to Birmingham and look by the markets.

and snap the blue angels






I walked away

and looked back

when I finally got home the rain may have short circuited my electric neighbour - all was dark.

library footpaths stairs

I needed the exercise and took the seven flights of stairs downwards



love


and hate



Eva is cross with Jamie Webb

some poor guy has cracked up
kicking the hard heartless concrete see the rubber marks of his footprints


and broken glass
this is not vandalism but the signs of a life falling apart
consumed by hopelessness and rage - or cold turkey and no more credit


at the 97 bus stop

and I took most of my books back to Chelmsley Wood library

I decided to walk home


by the library and police station


past a bus driver parked up and having a break

and a clerk working late



I have never walked this way at night
I usually walk out and bus back



over the bowed iron bridge over the gurgling brook
- I think a shopping trolley / cart was blocking its smooth flow.
much too dark to snap

patterns and
the yellow sodium lights turned chrome and plastic to bling on a 4 x 4




one light of a whiter hue reflecting in puddles where a cable layers trench has been filled in


past the corner of the medical centre car park

when I got in to MJerton House I took the stairs back up to the seventh floor, and after a long sit down in my flat, got my breath back and my heart beat rate down and went out again and climbed to the tenth floor



looking west over Bosworth Drive - through double glazing


looking east past the bus stop and the light show to Chelmsley Wood

Afterwards I felt good and had pressure cooked chicken to eat, with cider and mulled wine, and a littele whisky with the mulligatornyish soup.

walking in the rain

because I needed to exercise and see the autumn colours



from Lea Hall Station I went by train to Coventry

and got a bit lost




Cycle-smith James Starley also founded the car making industry here

see me with my big golf umbrella





site of the medieval town wall









EUROPAFEST dot com


Santa said:- "Back in 10 minutes with a fresh team of reindeer"


electric reindeer ride


the operator was from Poland


and I took bus 900 back from Coventry

were they talking in Rumanian?

bus stop at Birmingham International train station


but I took a train


past the apron at Birmingham airport BHX



one stop to Marston Green



see the landing lights of the plane which is dropping in through the clouds at about LIDL Mackadown


two buses later back in Bosworth Drive

when I got home

when I went out

view of where I had been


a snack


turn on the TV

Deal or No Deal - and I am a fan because I laugh a lot.

Deal Or No Deal

Channel4's new gameshow where 22 contestants vie for up to £250000.
format owned by Dutch-based production company and screene in 40 countries
endermoluk home


ready for later

let the Mac warm up

download photos

start MS Windows Xp sp2 on Parallels
downloading 80 photos for today from the videophone

trash chute unblocked

two busy guys rapidly unblocked the waste chute in Merton House

see

Solihull Community Housing

site:www.solihullcommunityhousing.org.uk connaught - Google Search








you have to flush the rubbish down with water



stacked high down on the ground floor
boat hook to pull the stuff into another bin

the culprit someone got a new dvd player - and Christmas will mean many blocked chutes
and off in their van to the next job

Connaught Cleaning Services Ltd

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Connaught: "Connaught PLC 06 November 2006 6 November 2006 Connaught plc ('Connaught' or the 'Company') CONNAUGHT COMMENCES TRADING ON THE OFFICIAL LIST Connaught is pleased to announce that it has today been admitted to the Official List of the UKLA and will commence trading at 8.00am on the London Stock Exchange's market for listed securities. Mark Tincknell, Chairman, commented: 'Today marks a significant milestone in Connaught's history. The Group has experienced strong growth since listing on AIM, with turnover increasing from £55 million in 1999 to £300 million in 2006. Given our current size and favourable outlook, we believe that now is the right time to move to the Official List so we can facilitate further growth. We look forward to reporting further progress in due course.' Copies of the prospectus have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at: Financial Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HS. Enquiries: Connaught plc Mark Tincknell, Chairman 01392 444 546 Altium Phil Adams 0161 831 9133 Paul Lines Finsbury Gordon Simpson 0207 251 380"

yesterday

strange perspective but I was interested in showing the high cloud heralding a warm front system coming in from the Atlantic over Ireland and Wales - it got here after dark giving a wet and very windy night.


On this 97 bus I had the top deck to myself at the head of Bosworth Drive - the old apple tree to the left is the remains of a victorian orchard.

25 minutes later in town

I will return to this blue dotted angel later for a better snap at the Birmingham Market

and this is for my friends in USA who expressed interest in the black plastic christmas tree glimpsed last week


I was taking my new short cut routed through DEBENHAMS but the lift was stuck on the second floor.
and this green palastic tree was at the top of the escalator by the cafe

I continued up in the glass lift to the left - only now have I spotted the red plastic trees.

Debenhams - Birmingham, Upper Mall East, Bullring, Birmingham ...Upper Mall East, Bullring Birmingham, West Midlands, England Website: ... Though the company dates back to 1778, the Debenhams name first appeared in 1813

Bullring CHRISTMAS AT THE CENTRE: "SHOP UNTIL 10PM - From 4th to 22nd December, Bullring will stay open an extra two hours until 10pm from Monday to Friday. "


and seen from the bridge to the Pallisades mall, the Rotunda has got another floor glazed in.

Pallisades Birmingham - Google Search

I had the flash on AUTO so got a darker picture than I wanted.


more like it - stand very still, exhale, freeze.

This big Argos has more electronics for example.

Argos Extra

The official Argos catalogue website. UK catalogue shopping online for appliances, DIY, electronics, furniture, garden supplies, gifts, jewellery, ...

Click and Collect with Argos!

Products identified with the logo are held in stock at all Argos Extra stores or can be ordered in from the warehouse to collect at any other Argos store,

just under one pound or two dollars - I will be back.

third Birmingham Write-in

KayJuran work in progress Your ink, their blood
site:www.nanowrimo.org kayjuran - Google Search

Germain Baxter finished CRASHED last year and published it herself (see blurry photo from last time)
time for coffee

frankfurters selling berliners and more

afterwards I walked up New Street to the Town Hall


"I am a doughnut" he said

soaps



crystal lights made of rock salt


glass balls
hand made chcolates


soaps

Birmingham · Habitat UK 88-91 New Street shop - Google Search




but which SANDY BAY - Sandvik - Sandvig ?









cherry beer






www.birmingham.gov.uk/christmas

Frankfurt Christmas Market
Thurs 16 November - Sat 23 December
10am – 8pm daily
Victoria Square and upper New Street
The perfect place to pick up an unusual gift – handmade jewellery, candles and decorations.

More information of the Frankfurt Market

the Bullring seen form the final or first 97 bus stop









inspired by the eye of a fly





back in Bosworth Drive and tempatation lured

fish and chips from the first shop in the parade

walking the rubbish at Merton House

this rubbish chute has been blocked for seven days

so I took the lift down seven floors to the bins


and I had come out of our back door


and changed the Sony Ericsson phonecam settings from auto to no flash


you need an evening sky to get a good "night" shot
and looking west this is from the carpark is below my kitchen window


around the corner into Crabtree Drive



and back in through the front door

late afternoon with the handicam

the helicopter route is to the east possibly they follow the motor way or the Holyhead or Chester Road - under visual flight rules they must keep to the right of any line on the ground


Alcott Wood and the oak trees are beginning to turn

nearly sunset
I just love coloured clouds

I am catching with all the Startreck episodes that I missed when they were new, because I was working in the evenings or in Denmark

looks a bit rainy under that lot

early start saturday

I awoke at about 6:00am to the sight of the old moon

and I love this golden light on Bosworth Drive and Chelmsley Wood

I started the Macbook Pro and did some mail
and rejoined some of my old groups earlier than planned
genealogy " " author:hugh author:watkins - Google Groups

after taking this snap with the 5 year old Sony handicam went back to bed and slept to midday

I got this plastic cased clockwork timer for one pound yesterday, because my right wrist is hurting, and I need to take many more breaks from mousing - 45 minutes on and 15 minutes off - one good idea I got from the NaNoWriMo write-ins, and my visits to Bath Record Office, is that taking breaks increses productivity

Big shopper

well I made three trips today:-
first to Chelmsley Wood Sommerfield supermarket for next weeks Radio Times and three kinds of bread and "cash back" to use at the markets

I made a bad buy of some tomatoes which where squishy and only fit for stewing

when I got off the 97 bus on Bosworth Drive I saw my (visual) neighbour is putting up his illuminations - I never got a good photo last year and I look forward to trying again with the new phonecam.

For lunch I made myself a glass of coffee and ate some of the squishiest tomatoes sandwiched in a piece of "bread stick" (flute in danish)

at the third bus stop I snapped the hole in the roof.

Second shop - I like repeating this scene as snapshots showing the changing seasons - here in LIDL I stocked up with 12 litres of milk, 14 cans of fish, 3 kinds of cheese, two sorts of tea, 2 kinds of ground coffee, minced beef, a frozen chicken, frozen pollack, frozen cod, and some german rye bread.
There were some left over art materials: a water colour set and a some pastels which I duly purchased.

THIRD after the fifth trip on the 97 bus I ended up at the open air markets in Birmingham


I purchased oranges, apples, pears, peppers, chinese leaf , carrots, onions, two kinds of green grapes and more tomatoes

Click to make bigger if you can not read the prices
I paid less on different less tidy stalls


I hardly ever need go out if it is raining, but the weather is worsening this week, and my fridge and cupboards were nearly bare.


and autumn is advancing faster and faster towards winter
(I am sentimental about the harsh hammered concrete from the late 1950ies in the background - an endangered architectural heritage.)

FOURTHLY
I went into Wing Yip - Welcome to WING YIP - ALL THE CHINESE YOU NEED TO KNOW
looking for chinese brushes and ink, but they use ball point pens these days like the rest of the world, and came out with some sweet sticky soya sauce from the junk pile and some RAJAH hot madras curry powder.

When I got home after the sixth trip on a 97 bus (all free to me as an OAP with a pass) I ate some more of the bread stick with chinese leaf, cottage cheese and the new soya sauce - tasty - more coffee two big glasses.

When I had rested in front of the TV, I made a curry using the remains of the cabbage soup in the pressure cooker, adding half a kilo of minced beef (4 days ration of protein), older curry powder, chinese leaf (the outer leaves which soon go off), the rest of the Sommerfield poor quality tomatoes, 7 small onions (peeling them in front of the tv brought tears to myeyes)
I heated it all up to pressure and left it to stew in its own heat.

I went to bed to sleep for an hour and I was too tired to even watch the local news on TV - sadly also of forensic archeology in Solihull looking for the corpses of two boys (missing from Chelmsley Wood for ten years and the subject of a flyer the police put through my letter box last week).

solihull murder - Google News: "Police use digger in hunt for boys missing 10 years
Reuters.uk, UK - 8 hours ago
... the Chelmsley Wood area of Solihull. Last week police interviewed paedophile Brian Field, who is currently serving life for child rape and murder, about their .."

afterwards HAPPY CHRISTMAS BIRMINGHAM

at the NaNoWriMo second Birmingham Write-In

not one of us
I got to Starbucks in New Street just before 12.00 pm and was third. I followed our leaders down the stairs
I hand wrote 3000 words - my hand writng still gets big and illegible as I race to keep up with my thoughts. This gave me serious trouble in my school days and then we used steel nibbed dip pens and ink wells and had copper plate as a model.
copperplate - Google Image Search

we got ready to get squashed up into the corner

coffee first for most of us
but I waited until I was hungry for lunch

and a bite to eat

nearly ready to start writing for the first 45 minute session to be followed by a 15 minute break; and repeated and repeated and repeated, until your brain or your ink or your laptop battery runs out.
Paper could be replenished at inflated prices by a quick dash to SMITHS on the concourse of New Street station.

I found I wrote over 1000 words in the first 45 minute session

my mss note book and specs after I moved tables to welcome and make room for the late comers, and I wondeed if Starbucks have chess sets to loan out behind the bar like my local - BO-I bar - in Copenhagen - Bo-Bi bar - Google Search - bo-bi bar - Google Image Search

I succumbed to a Sunday Times for the first time in years, but only started reading it on Monday - same old well written weary middle class rubbish - at least that pompous Winner has safely revacinnated me against buying another copy.
In Bo-Bi bar the daily papers are free for all to read


bit blurred - I got nervous and the camera shook and I can't read the name of the author or the title of her book.

Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free: "Lulu is fast, easy and free

Publish and sell easily within minutes.
No set-up fees. No minimum order.
Keep control of the rights.
Set your own price.
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my blurred lunch - Starbucks had run out of plates
I stood and waited for ever until I asked for it to be served in paper bags.

There is very very poor service here both slow, and with no communication about delays, to us customers on Sundays, just a bit like the british railways.


My second try was still embarrasingly blurred - I should have used the flash in the videocam but I like the ambient lighting better.

She is one of last years winners who got published on demand from last year by Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free:
much less of a rip off unlike most vanity presses and for her FREE sample she just paid the postage from USA.


full house

after the bosses went home eight of us continued

prize for the last man still writing - not me this time
I like the card cutting idea for plotting - I used to use home made cards to randomize my daily practice of the eighty odd scales and arpeggios needed to be a good bassoon player - and pass diploma exams.

by around 4:00 pm I had run out of energy and it was time for me to say good bye to the diehards.

and this time it was still light when I got back to the surface after my 4 hour session

ranjna theaker - Google Search photos removed by request

on the way to Starbucks in New Street Birmingham

In In Merton House I had to take the stairs down one floor, because the postman gave me a letter for number 24 when I live in flat 29 - they were much much cleaner than 5 years ago - but the kids steal the emergency exit signs so a stencilled sprayed on one would be better

when they dug the foundations for the Bullring there was archeology - here a tannery in Edgebaston Street - but just imagine the smell in the parsonage opposite


who stole the lead panel off the church?

a funerial black and silver for christmas decorations this year


I planned to take the lift up two floors in the glass tower to the right

behind the glass bricks

but it was out of order


so I had to go back in past the black plastic christmas tree and use the lift in Debenhams



which actually was better as I came out quickly to the bridge from the 1950ies





the second bridge and I could see the ROTUNDA is getting its new skin

my inner child was really tempted by these big boxes of crayons

15 minutes to go and I turned right

towards New Street

the back of the old bank is pretty unchanged

the street is over shadowed giving a victorian feeling
Hudson's bookshop used to be the best in the midlands, and in the arcade the newspaper kiosk was good for magazines

you see Birmingham is on a steep hillside but by darting in and out of shops you get carried up in lifts or on escalators


the New Street entrance to the bank but the mahogany interior is long gone.


New Street getting cleaned up

she told me that she got five pounds an hour for standing holding the sign

argos and back

On Thursday my coffee machine died


the weather looked better

so I went to the pharmacy first

at the end of Fordbridge medical centre



rubbish building up in the usual places


looking back
I took the 97 bus went to Argos and got my fifth very cheap coffee machine replaced
then into Sommerfields NO RADIO TIMES so I won't go there again


exiting via this escalæator

past the police staiton - note small wndows in back yard - cells.

just after sunset to the Chelsmley Wood library who had phoned to say they had a book for me which I had ordered

NPR : Temple Grandin: A Key to Animal BehaviorTemple Grandin is one of the nation's top designers of livestock facilities. She is also autistic. Grandin's new book is Animals in Translation: U


I loved to kick the autumn leaves as a child



and collected this book which is a revelation.
see Temple Grandin's Web Page
Livestock behaviour, design of facilities and humane slaughter.
Dr. Temple Grandin
who attributes her success as a livestock designer to her ability to recall detail which is a characteristic of her visual memory. A noted autistic who is an author, speaker, cited expert in many publications, and video producer

getting off the bus and the winter will soon be here.

Hug machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe therapeutic, stress-relieving device was originally conceived and designed by Temple Grandin, PhD, at the age of eighteen

temple grandin - Google Search

Interview with ...

Temple Grandin:Well the thing is, with a little bit of autism, you know, if you have mild autism, you'll get genius like einstein. Too much of autism, ...

EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Temple Grandin
he has also published more than 300 papers on autism and animal science. In her latest book, Animals in Translation, which has just been published in Britain, . . . . 2005
urriculum vitae

Age: 58
Education: BA (psychology), Franklin Pierce College, 1970; MS, Arizona State University, 1975; PhD (animal science), University of Illinois, 1989.
Current jobs: Associate professor of animal science, Colorado State University; consultant and designer of livestock-handling facilities
Likes: Biochemistry, animal welfare, pictures, Star Trek
Dislikes: "Ideological politics", television news
Unmarried

family tree images

TOP
working with Family Tree Maker 16 on a Macintosh Cinema HD VDU at 1920 x 1200 pixels

BELOW
on the laptop MacBook Pro LCD at 1280 x 1050 pixels (slightly smaller pixels too)
and ancestryco.uk census search results page and the image at 150%

my own pedigree viewed with seven generations - double clicking on any box calls that grey Edit Individual dialogue box

more details and images on my other blog my own MacBook Pro
Tree charting on screen

balcony breakfast

I enjoyed the autumn colours but did not feel like taking a walk because it looked a bit damp

this tomato plant survived months without water and is now flowering

my eleven cactus are just being themselves

for more snaps taken this morning see genealogy today on my other blog My own MacBook Pro

on the way into Brum for the Write-In

not seen in Denmark - the zig zag lines prohibit parking by the zebra crossing


The 97 bus driver would not pick me up because I was just before the Bosworth Drive, Heathmere Drive stop - which still has a hole in its roof to be reported.

but the nice yellow bus was close behind



when I was a student working with SGB scaffolding in my summer holidays about 50 years ago, I did some work on the building of the little red stone house by helping dismantle the shuttering for the concrete ceiling.

The arkets are sunday closed so car parking is spilling over from the Bull Ring

and they have got the mega big plastic christmas tree out again

strange it used to be a thoroughfare

from my childhood cot I heard about 365 air raid alarms sounded by the chorus of near and distant syrens, and bombs fell on about 77 nights - I was 7 miles south of this monument so actual figures may be less or more.

and I was 4 years old when the night bombing started and seven years when it ended

I was never told of any air raid deaths.

not tempting in this cool weather
and I only noticed the angel when I got home

Big Issue seller's dog
on the road into Birmingham New Street Station




the original railway policemen became the signal men of today - the railways also owned ferries - and the portcullis symbolizes imprisonment.

a SKODA police car

an original kind of taxi space

and then I went into WH Smiths to get an A5 book to write in

Birmingham NaNoWriMO first write-in

Starbucks Coffee Co 0121 643 6643 114 New Street, Birmingham, B2 4JH MAPPED

First write-in! (Sunday, 05/11/06, from noon onwards at Starbucks on New Street) LINK TO BOARD


I went downstairs
and asked for the "naughty-chair" because I was nearly two hours late
I took the place to the right and continued working on deconstructing a Mills & Boon medical romance which I have had lying about unread since 2004 - because I want to learn the craft of styish commercial novel writing at its most effective - not unlike Daily Mirror prose style beating more academic writers.


and Satu is off camera to the left


the group is off to the right

SERIOUS drink

Satu has posted on the board:-
"Thanks for coming, everyone! The manager has been warned that we'll be back next week -- let's see if he still remembers it then.

I've just finished typing up what I wrote, and it's ended up being about 2100 words (that's with a little bit of editing and expanding), which means I've made my word count for today, yay! I didn't think it'd be quite that much.

It's also a little less rubbish than I expected, which is a bonus!"

A.

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Annika
Co-ML for Birmingham, UK
MSN: evil_satu(at)hotmail.com | Jabber: satu(at)jabber.dk

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother. -- Terry Pratchett

and I went and got a big big coffee


after a bit of a wait

four of us stayed on
writers cramp - just like Charles Dickens
see no computer needed !

and the four of us continued until about 4:30 pm

I am sorry that this blog has been delayed by Lord of the Rings on C4 TV
and I just did bits of it and the ones below in the commercial breaks

afterwards in New Street

quitting Starbucks



the shops were closing after the sunday opening and putting out their rubbish


much better with the flash turend off and not on automatic but I have to hold the camera really still.



Christmas looms


passing by the Rotunda


and a new way to New Street Staion has been cleared of building works

on SELFRIDGES car park roof to see the sunset

going home on on the 97 bus

merton house

my first attempts at snapping fireworks

seated by my computer

on the seventh floor

in Merton House

with a full moon

Chelmsley Wood

and the window needs cleaning again

evening walk and morning weather

Yesterday I dropped by the pharmacy to renew my repeat prescription

I will collect it late Tuesday and then I walked into Chelmsley to buy the Radio Times for next week




the waning moon snapped from the little bridge over the brook




and the much graffitied tunnel









this ISS van with the toilet cleaners stopped just as I took this snap of the west entrance hall of Chelmsley Wood shopping centre




because I was talking with another white bearded passenger I missed my bus stop and got off opposite our parade of shops

and there is lots of fast food to tempt me




today I got up at 6:oo am and ate breakfast in the kitchen with icy air from the open window as a cold air bath.

ice crystal clouds this morning after breakfast



the vapour trails are for jets leaving BHX and climbing past my kitchen window and turning south



hoar frost too

trolley still there






I just noticed this thermostatic controller after living here for 5 years but I don't know if it works
indoo temperature is about 70 degrees F


experiment with flash when I turn out the bathroom lights








another test with water droplets

weather in Chelmsley wood

see re-entry todays phote blog with my handicam got misplaced

victorian stained glass St Mary's Church Temple Balsall

Lady Katherine Leveson's Hospital and Charity from 1678 in her will


The Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson at Temple Balsall
Christian community with information on sheltered and residential care, St Mary's Church,
Lady Katherine Leveson CE Primary School, the study centre . . . .



Parish Church of St Mary at Temple Balsall
St Mary's Church, Temple Balsall The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin.








Temple Balsall church - Google Search




see Temple Balsall - Google Search
"Katherine Leveson" - Google Search:

my afternoon walk to the dentist and back

with my NORDIC POLES


uphill

refurbishing the rabbit hutches?

SNAPS ONE: again walking in May 2006 to my dentist

the dental surgery is just to the left
Harry Hunjan
The Dental Centre. Craig Croft. Chelmsley Wood. B37 7TR.

afterwards I followed the paths downhill, past these apples fit for scrumping but I resisted the temptation




the round arches of the old Chester Road bridge hide behind the newer concrete road widening


the Environmental Agency was measuring water flow and depth but cannot afford a laser level


into the park but walking in the opposite direction
















it was not this dark when I turned homewards across the iron bridge


usually I take a apicture here in the morning when I am outward bound


finally Merton House was in sight

the paramedics have parked their ambulance below my seventh floor kitchen window again
in Crabtree Drive, Fordbridge, Solihull

good morning

a geometrical composition seen when I woke up and sat on the edge of my bed
a bit later than usual or planned, the colour of the light and the angle of elevation of the sun reveal that, I turned on the mac and started the bath but the Mac OS X crashed and I had to restart. (Firefox 2 smells a bit I fear)

Meanwhile I was hungry and my stomach was growling so I took breakfast next on the balcony clear blue sky and sun and cool without frost I have until 1:00 pm for my first NaNOWriMo session before I will hike a couple of miles with nordic poles and rucksack to my brilliant dentist for our 2:00 pm appointment.