tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96948392008-04-06T23:50:04.202ZMoseley Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469295644517692434noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9694839.post-25602568229121320592007-11-11T11:34:00.000Z2007-11-11T11:45:32.255Z

View Larger Map A fake designer clothes factory thought to be the largest discovered in the West Midlands has been found in a Birmingham suburb. Police discovered the counterfeiting operation in the Kings Heath area after thieves tried to ram-raid the industrial unit on Thursday morning. [via BBC]A bit peculiar. What buildings of this size exist in Kings Heath? First floor workshops? Not if

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Garages on Cotton Lane - roof torn off by the tornado, doors and panels torn off by vandals?

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Came across this at http://www.programmableweb.com/ http://mygeoposition.com http://mygeoposition.com/loc/52.446587,-1.887996/?zoomLevel=17&mapType=

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A bit of cut-n-paste from The Observer Sunday August 12, 2007 The skateboarderPaul-Luc Ronchetti will be showing off his rodeos and kickflips from Newquay to California When he's at home, Paul-Luc visits his small local skate park at the recreation ground in Wymondham, but he rates it just a one-out-of-10. So, for the past two years he's relied on his mother driving him on 300-mile round

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I stopped in at Johnstan's today and picked up a postcard from the counter. Some sort of community website. AboutMyArea.co.uk/B14 will be the new community website run by local people from the heart of Kings Heath. There'll be lots of information about community events and groups, local listings, local news and vital information for anyone living locally. And there's more to come...You will start

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Yes, much excitement locally about the new Polish deli that's being set up on the High Street, but what's really interesting to me about this photo is that I've just uploaded it to flickr. Gosh how very interesting that flickr still allows me to upload photos even though I haven't given in to the demand for a yahoo ID. And here I thought refuseniks would be banned, then vaporised! Guess I was

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Can You? Go ahead, surprise me with plausible explanations of this list. Found on a pillar box at the top of Greenhill Road.

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Someone has come along Wake Green Road and cleaned the algae off this bus stop marker. I recall the previous condition distinctly. What surprises me is that I noticed the change. And speaking of surprises, what two bunny imposters were walking across Moseley Village today with a small placard saying Escape Bunny?

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We were told this was in the works, but now that's it's underway, the place is looking raw rather than pretty. Highbury Park's first Anti Social Vegetation Order.

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Someone added a caption to this art project.

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The new Zoto service launched a few minutes ago, and does this groovy page of up to 160 thumbnails organised by tag, date, and any of several other criteria. This is gonna be fun! Link to Zoto 3.0 - Photo Sharing Of course, it also means that the photos below may have to be re-linked, especially for the lapsed accounts...

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Give people a day off to play in the snow and what do they do? Make sculpture in the old Henbury garden at Highbury Park! Oh, alright it's not a Henry Moore. But it was an inspired thing to do, and looks quite good framed by the old brick pillars. So I hope it snows again, and again. More sculptures, a variety of them. A snow-sculpture event. With hot drinks. And lots of people.

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I love how corporate crapmongers make life more difficult for clients in order to make life easier for themselves. Case in point? Google's new Blogger (tbka Bloggle). The new Blogger - which we are required to adopt if we wish to continue with this website - is not designed with clumsy John Q. Public in mind. So one is - shall we say - stuffed, when one provides something like an email address

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Here’s an interesting and useful new service from the civic-minded folk at mySociety: Neighbourhood Fix-It. I don’t know what the mechanics are, e.g., how the Council is notified, but this will become apparent over time. I did sign up and provided an example of something that needs attention: this street sign at the corner of Greenhill Road and Billesley Lane. The reporting process requires

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Today brought this year's first hard frost, and the shortest day. Both were over relatively quickly, with clear night sky turning to fog, then sunshine and bag to fog in the late afternoon. The air was cold enough this morning that it was something of a shock to the lungs, and the hands. The resulting photographs are blurry from low light and lack of steadiness. The fog has been making headlines

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A few weeks pass and this is what happens. powered by performancing firefox

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2006-09-29_009, originally uploaded by moseleyblogger 2. Colour of the day. In the background. See that container? I was waiting for the No. 1 this afternoon and this monster rolled up. Within seconds I had a theme going.

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An opinion piece by Camilla Cavendish from today's Times: "From Glasgow to Great Torrington, from Dartford to Darlington, citizens are arming themselves with pencils and tomes of planning law and campaigning to preserve their streets and their open spaces. Which in many cases means keeping out Tesco. Sorry, Tesco. Every little hurts. I mention this not just because I too am beginning to feel

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On a Saturday morning when Kings Heath High Street is jammed with shoppers and traffic, Highbury Park is, in contrast, notably placid. Ten cars in the parking area, some two dozen people out and about, including the volunteers participating in the tidy-up day, and about half as many dogs. Early Autumn is a great time to stroll through the park, because the trees are starting to distinguish

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Spotted from the top deck of the No. 1 as it crossed Alcester Road. What it is? Has someone left a cake out in the rain? Has another street drinker passed away? Did it fall off a hearse? Is it some kind of Yippie prank or anti-gentrification snark? I suspect it has something to do with an award... Recognition for the efforts made by Natalie Higgins et al has come not in the massive blooms

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So far, the newly raised kerbstones along School Road have produced exactly the results I'd hoped for. People careening downhill slow to a crawl when vehicles are coming the other way along this stretch, and, as seen in the distance in the top photo, when there are vehicles parked partway onto the pavement by the shops. For now, it means a lot more peace of mind while walking this stretch. I

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This started out as the piece on demolitions, but has been sidetracked a bit. I haven't searched through my files for older photos showing the buildings before they were knocked down, but want to post the photos I took this morning while I can justify spending the few minutes it'll take to make a note about each. What the post ends up as is a short tour of the School Road site, plus a couple of

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I have been meaning to keep up with minor but noticeable changes around the neighbourhood - and in some cases, the absence of such change. I think that this is one function that suits a blog well. Building an archive of the place as it varies over time - and not just in major ways. Given that Moseley developed its suburban character over a hundred years ago, there's not much one can expect in

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According to a survey and social profile of net-savvy Britons, Moseley is about as backward as it gets. The results are presented through a tool called e-Society profiler. Entering a postcode in the e-Society profiler search box returns a result characterising the type of technology use in that postcode area. It also lists areas with similar profiles within Great Britain. Best of all, it shows us

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It's been a long while since I've seen a hedgehog, and today this little one showed up in my garden. Perhaps this means there are good eats around the place – aside from the hedge trimmings in the black bags.It’s also been a long while since this particular semi on Cotton Lane saw any activity. Someone’s done a good bit of tidying, and put a notice on the front door of one side.My garden could do

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