misty sunrise

I woke up at 4:00 am and went on line
and this is afterwards

when I was ready to go back to bed it was sunrise
at 6:51 AM BST -- and sunset will be 7:33 PM BST
Coleshill, United Kingdom Forecast : Weather Underground

07.30   Panoramabilder / Bergwetter  ab 09.00 Uhr

Bergwetter | Reisewetter | Wetter | BR: "Wetterbericht für die bayerischen Alpen, Österreich und Südtirol" switching round the Wetterkameras | Wetter | BR
BAYERN Bad Hindelang - Google Search

no commentary, and the weather as text on pictures of ski resorts, with tyrolean music with a small traditional oom-pa-pa band playing landler and polka
for about 90 minutes
And I found it very relaxing with an excellent old style tuba player which was followed by some gentle yoga

09.00   Tele-Gym                       
         Aktiv und gesund durch Hatha-  
         Yoga (4/8)

  Mi: Aktiv + gesund durch               
     Stretching                         
     mit Jack Campbell 

BAYERNTEXT | BR


Astra 1B 19.2E
Signal Intensity 77% Signal Quality 71% on my LIDL satellite receiver - Google Search
( I can recieve three other satellites too)

the sun came into sight at last and I went back to sleep

more weather

I could not see myself in the audience anyway
may be tommorrow on Channel 4 deal or No Deal


meanwhile I sliced the box of limes ready for the freezer



dark grey clouds moved away

and the kitchen window shows how it was raining
wet and very windy and gusty



Coleshill, United Kingdom Forecast : Weather Underground: "Humidity: 81%
Dew Point: 32 °F / 0 °C
Wind: 18 mph / 30 km/h / 8.2 m/s from the NNW
Wind Gust: 33 mph / 54 km/h / 14.9 m/s
Pressure: 29.71 in / 1006 hPa
Windchill: 28 °F / -2 °C
Visibility: 6.2 miles / 10.0 kilometers
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds: Few 1000 ft / 304 m
Scattered Clouds 3000 ft / 914 m
Mostly Cloudy 4500 ft / 1371 m
(Above Ground Level)"

snow today

over Bosworth Drive and Chelmsley Wood
the shadow of Merton House is like a giant sundial at about 5:30pm gmt as the storm goes away to the east



there is another storm about 10 miles to the west over Birmingham obscuring the rays of the setting sun behind me


I forgot to turn the flash off - droplet to the left

Tate Modern to Trafalgar Square and Euston

over the wobbly suspension bridge for my first time

the new stiffeners


cable anchorage


more stiffeners

looking back at the Tate Modern


Millenium Bridge on Google Maps on a long shadowed wintery morning

further down stream towards the sea the river Thames flows through Tower Bridge

upstream and sunset was about 10 minutes ago

just picked up a new load of tourists

The Globe theatre in black and white

and a few moments ago two stark naked girls wearing nothing but big smiles ran by
but my videophone was in my pocket

film crew - therefore the streakers


I looked through a window like the pair at the other end of the pool

headquarters of the Salvation Army

a reminder

The College of Arms is the official repository of the coats of arms and pedigrees of English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Commonwealth families . . . college of arms - Google Search

and on the top deck of a bus St Pauls to Charing Cross station
where seeing a Car Phone Warehoue in the Strand I got off

I nearly fell off one of those stools when I was trying to put the new 1 gb memory chip into my K800i videophone

at the bus stop in Trafalgar Square


then the bus northwards
and a short walk to some Real Ale and then Euston Station

BREE LOUISE

69 Cobourg Street, NW1 2HH
0207 681 4930
Mon – Sat 11.30 – 23, Sun 12 – 22.30
Timothy Taylor Landlord plus large rotation of guest beers

This open-plan, one-bar, corner pub can at times have up to nine guest beers available in addition to the permanent Landlord, five of which can be on gravity. This range reduces to around five in the hotter, summer months (when the outside seating is welcome) and, in general, can vary as a result of demand around football fixtures. Food is served Mon – Fri 12 – 15 and 17-21 (hot and cold snacks) and at weekends 12-17 (roasts).

Close to Euston main line and Euston Square tube.

Formerly Jolly Gardeners

London Euston to Birmingham New Street

£6 for 6 cans from Threshers on the concourse but £2 10p each from the bar on board teh Virgin train - one can every thirty minutes got me home in good form after a long and tiring day

and the next photos were saved on my new 1gb memory chip

Curzon Street was dark

and on arrival at New Street I walked to the 97 bus stop


and the lift was still broken

and the deserted Bullring was getting ready for ready for St Patrick's Day

new blogger bug not yet fixed

images correctly formatted for the other blog photographs and walks: IMHX 2007, International Materials Handling Exhibition


remembering Mum at Marston Green station bus stops

DEXION a magical name - I remember when the Dexion slotted angle product came out - and I see that I was eleven years old Dexion - About Us - History: "Dexion started in the UK in 1947."
Simplicity itself, the new system consisted of shaped metal strips with regularly punched slots. These strips can be
bolted together to construct racks and shelving to fit almost any available space. The name for the new angle system sprang from the Greek word for ‘right’ – ‘dexion’. Also, from this sprang the now famous ‘circle and tick’ symbol used in the Dexion trademark.


publisher David Priestman B.A. -- http://www.logisticsbusiness.com/
Logistics Business magazine covers all aspects of being a successful operator,
integrator, manufacturer or distributor in handling and logistics.
circulation is 11,000-15,000, pan-European.
.

see IMHX - Google Searchand the right way up

todays snaps are back on new blogger

photographs and walks: bullring birmingham and success with portraits

shopping again

The day started well with the rubbish chute unblocked, and working again, and my bag of kitchen waste made a satisfying woosh followed by deep bonk as it landed in the bin 7 floors below.

I took the 97 bus in to the outer ring road around Birmingham
I was late setting out so did not get any snaps until I go to this new 11e 11c bus stop

complete with rebranding and an extruded aluminium post


Birmingham Outer Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Buses on the Outer Circle travel both clockwise (service 11C) and anti-clockwise (11A).
Operated by National Express owned Travel West Midlands with new Wrightbus Volvo double decker buses, although a few other company's buses occasionally serve small parts of the route.

The number 11 is Europe's longest urban bus route and first came into existence in 1923."
2 hours 20 minutes - about the same as a trip to London by train.


In fact I was catching 11a on this side of the road - someone did not check their work or a student prank has occured.

the oak tree is one of my favourites
typically no timetable

I experimented with rotating one of the above in the videophone picture editor in order to test the new blogger see the results photographs and walks: testing portrait with bus stop 11 Outer Cricle

leaving the 11a just after Erdington high Street and Banks has an impressive frontage



and real bargains at the end of their SALE
an old fashioned double breasted jacket for £1

no shirts left to fit - this is the old shop, but they have a fine new customer toilet with room for a wheel chair

I am down from a 7XL to a 6XL too since my last visit

and 8 pairs of underpants for £10

Mail order from their printed catalogue by phone
Order Line: 0121 373 5450
is a major part of their business but the internet is beginning to catch up I was told.

Banks Big Man, Men with Large Feet. The BIG MANS Clothes Shop.
machine washable suit jacket and a budget trouser

Map of B23 7JE United Kingdom | Multimap.com

Banks (Menswear) Ltd: About Us: "Banks Ltd, is celebrating more than fifty years of successful retailing in Birmingham.

The company has its origins in 1954, when husband and wife team Thelma and Brian Banks started their first shop, a DIY store, in Park Road, Aston."
I took the bus into Brum under Spaghetti Junction and past Aston
and walked rapidly towards the Bullring


on my to do list - to visit another landmark old building which has been recycled from the Dunlop tyre factory FORT DUNLOP flash movie

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Limited - About Us - Company History: "In 1889, John Boyd Dunlop founded the Pneumatic Tyre Company and Booth's Cycle Agency, which were to become the Dunlop Rubber Company Limited.

The company became involved in aviation in 1910, when Dunlop Rubber Company introduced a wire-spoked wheel with a beaded tyre specifically designed for the aviation market."
Dunlop tyres cutting edge tyre technology for family saloon, 4x4's, SUV's, racetrack, & classic vintage market: "headquarters are at Tyre Fort in Birmingham, a stone's throw from the original Fort Dunlop, the one time global headquarters of the Dunlop Tyre Compan"


and the big red nose for Red Nose Day 2007 from Comic Relief. BBC - Red Nose Day The official BBC website
this bull is well used and loved

and getting quite polished

everything a girl needs in one pack at H&M

H&M - Press
and next door she can get a mp3 player too


apple store - Google Search

I wanted a firewire hard disk but got the wrong one
20 mbs when this bus runs at 80 mbs
so I will have to return it.


heading for the vegetable market - I took the short cut through Debenhams
to the back lift which I blogged at Christmas

now geared up for Mothers' Day on 18 March


I got off one floor too soon
this will be my next TV - when the price falls far enough in 7 or 8 years time


Sony of course

spring has sprung in the Kingfisher project

first I posted a letter and got next weeks Radio Times in Bosworth Drive
then I headed north west through the maze of footpaths

the water in the blue plastic fountain sounded as pleasant as any japanese garden

wow - one tiny yellow flower



and even a violet - global warming indeed


these two men pick up the litter here on Chelmsley Road every day
because behind me is Big John's fast food, and Teaxaco and a newsagent sell sweets and crisps to the childen who scatter the packaging.


Foxglove Crescent top left on Google Maps
which shows my route from Crabtree Drive up the image
and down the path to the river - then clockwise



a bit too light so I reduced the the F number to get more detail

and then two school girls came running "Are you alright Santa?"
they shouted across the field
because they saw me bent double over the first dandelion of the year
as if I had a severe pain.

Nice kids round here - I respect them and they me in return.


I wish you could also enjoy the babbling sounds of the full river Cole - I felt so peaceful and this valley is free from traffic noise

the rain just sits on this path


these exposed pebbles in the clay are from the melt waters of the last ice age

I looked forward to a sit down on the iron planked seat
(new rucksack £9 from LIDL for my handicam)

then the light went - my twenty year old boots were from the Scout Shop in Copenhagen on Nørre Farimagsgade to Krak.dk to check the spelling

it was not a gloomy day just changeable

and the sun came out again


looking back over my shoulder

and tilted

this dog is called Dodger, is now neutered and was male; and belongs to the vicar who was in London for the day


the lady dog walker is 84 and a spinster who lives with her bachelor brother

a handsome young oak tree unusual on a river bank

pussy willow and very soft to touch


I leaned against this willow tree and stood very still trying to make myself seem part of it

the distant swan was more people shy - you can just see my shadow on the water

but both were looking for food

and grazing the fresh grass

and noisily washing it in its beak before swallowing the grass blades

thinking about it, by chance I was "up sun" to them like a fighter pilot
beware of the "the hun in the sun" - Google Search

and they waded out when a disinterested dog came by on the path

walking on
three catkins

these two park rangers are going to clear the wind uprooted tree in the top left corner before it falls on someone - and they told me where the kingfishers might be



just a few tiny blackthorn flowers

there is a big sign RICHMOND HOUSE >>
on Cooks Lane - I thought that I might find a new path homewards

but it was a dead end with just 10 flats on three floors

click here for Google Maps and you can see this
and the pedestrian crossing over Cooks Lane
and the long jump pit below

Cooks Lane looking east

AHA a new shortcut - and my knee was stiff and hurting
and I had been so tempted by the number 94 buses passing by


looking south across the playing fields


sand pit for long jumpers


you can see the line of rubbish at the bottom of the hedge by the college

just a wide open space with the high houses artistically placed in the landscape
to the east


and to the south quite post Le Corbusier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ville Contemporaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "or Contemporary City was an unrealised project to house three million inhabitants designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1922." but this is a much less formal version of the same concept from the City of Birmingham architects and the 1960ies



rubbish thrown over the fence by the school yard - and very wet underfoot

Merton House is the third from the right

no clean up done yet at the Chelmsley Road end of the playing fields


my two nordic poles help me descend safely


not litter but crocuses in the middle of Chelmsley Road

my favourite fence



and down the backs
the sort of narrow place which gave Hans Christian Andersen nightmares




I love the quiet and freedom from traffic noise
and the intimacyof the back gardens glimpsed

our two paramedics are on call (beneath my kitchen window)


I started my computer when I got home

the windows looked burnt out in the above snap
so I had another go
still a lovely day

and then I blue-toothed these 54 JPG from phone to Macintosh

tomorrow to John Banks
Big Man, Men with Large Feet. The BIG MANS Clothes Shop.
machine washable suit jacket and a budget trouser

Map of B23 7JE United Kingdom | Multimap.com

then St MARTINS market for green stuff

red sky in the morning

no more shopping today - up early and going back to bed after breakfast

I went back today to LIDL

I breakfasted in my kitchen to the sound of roller skates on the empty car park

the next lot of children took their socks off and paddled in the big puddle



on the way to the 97 bus

the brown birch is not in bud yet
Lake LIDL was back on the car park

the Roman Catholic church
Our Lady Help Of Christians, 57 East Meadway, - Google Search



I saw this yesterday up to 180 kg

and I am over 160 kg of my old LIDL balance ( all made in China)
I went back today and put the round one in my trolley, which is english english for shopping cart

not much sugar left 24 hours later
see milk below

I strolled by these shops on the way to the 97 bus

wobbly letters may mean wobbly haircuts and trims?

a bath and garden rubbish burners
local hand work in iron and dipped in hot zinc for about 170 years
hot dip galvanizing process history - Google Search

I went inside the ironmngers and ahad a chat - and they still sell nails by weight
if you ask for 1 lb you get 454 grams under the new rules


the ironmongers with no name in the centre of the parade of shops, East Meadway, Kitts Green, Birmingham , B33 0AP

East Meadway, Kitts Green, Birmingham , B33 0AP - Google Search

I love the way this scratched plastic takes the light

oops "It just went off in my hand Sir !"

friday by BSA and Bingo to LIDL

stripes make you go faster

pink flowers greeting spring


and daffs


soft verges show the increasing afluence of this district and the lack of sufficient parking places in Bosworth Drive

now rebranded 97 97a bus stop
Centro rebranded Network West Midlands - Google Search


steaming patch at Kitts Green

I hope the original architect of the BSA Group headquarters never sees this efficient but ugly refenestration


wheel chair ramp under contruction for the new Probation Offices

and lightning conductors from Nottingham
(2 hours each way commute)


www.bjs-bingo.co.uk/ BIRMINGHAM and Join Now

the entrance used for construction is being walled off - but fire escapes?

the new main entrance to BSA machine tools
a tiny watch house and a print shop to the left, and to the right Bingo

the new entrance to the Bingo Hall


opposite these Birmingham council houses are getting a new roof
after being cleared of asbestos rot proof eves

too far for me to recycle

vegetables and fruit are the LIDL loss-leaders just now
nearly down to market prices

I took 14 liters skimmed milk (see next blog above 24 hours later)

I got one of each spice or herb

I passed this japanese drink

very very expensive 12 years old schnaps in half liter bottles - I bought the cheapest

Easter is upon us

abandoned by the trolley park on St David's day (Wales)

Home again and unpacking in the kitchen my 7 year old spice rack needed filling up and the LIDL stuff is one third of the price of Schwarz

Ferrosan.com - IDO-FORM® / BIFIFORM®Ido-form®/Bifiform® is a combined probiotic for the recovery of normal intestinal microflora and the prevention of diarrhoea for adults and children alike.
enterococcus faecium - Google Search and bifidobacterium longum - Google Search
One of the most important residents in the human gastrointestinal tract, B. longum keeps the digestive system running smoothly, blocks the growth of harmful bacteria, and boosts the immune system.
The organism ferments sugars into lactic acid and has many health benefits for humans and is often the dominant bacterium found in humans. It is Gram-positive, anaerobic, branched rod-shaped bacterium.

Bifidobacterium longum is among the first to colonise the sterile digestive tract of newborns and predominates in breast-fed infants. Formula-fed infants have a different microflora, and this may be related to the higher risk of diarrhea and allergies in these babies.

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just the job after alot of antebiotics for my bad leg - now OK
sent from Denmark by my god friend Hedvig THANKS !



time to test my new teapot from LIDL

Earl Grey tea leaves

the outer is glass the inner is plastic

and it began to rain on the kitchen window


to my right by the scanner and mouse (off screen to the left)
I get lemons when they are very very cheap in the markets and slice them up and freeze them


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