Monthly Archives: June 2008

Brum Link 26th June

Found this on teh interwebs: HOW I MET JASPER CARROTT AND BECAME A DRUMMER – Sunday Mercury – Bev Bevan – "I've never "blogged" before, so forgive me if this seems like I don't know what I'm doing. Suppose I'd better start by introducing myself." Bev Bevan has a blog

Is second place good enough to aim for?

I was surprised, and a little bit flattered I’ll admit, to be asked to be on the panel for Birmingham Future’s (Big Brand) debate “Is Birmingham A Second City?”, along with Ian Taylor, commercial director of Marketing Birmingham and David Clarke. Exalted company, but both very nice as it turned out. Here’s the ‘debate’ proposition (much longer and more detailed version here in the Birmingham Post): “Birmingham was the original hotbed of entrepreneurialism, innovation and cutting-edge technology, our ‘City of 100 Trades’ was a proud forerunner in the Industrial Revolution. Since then, we have suffered an image crisis – maligned in the media and the butt of many jokes despite huge strides in improving the built environment, infrastructure, amenities and leisure offer for the city’s inhabitants and visitors. So what can we, the next generation of city leaders, do to change these outdated perceptions of our city? Is the Second City banner, coveted by a number of other English cities, a positive or negative for Birmingham? If not the Second City, then what are we? The First City for Innovation? The Youthful City? Diverse City? International City? In this, the second Big Future Debate, you decide! Join your fellow...

Brum Link 26th June

Found this on teh interwebs: Don't knock brutalism | Art & architecture | guardian.co.uk – Guardian on the Central Library, including a link out to the Post (good on them for that).

Man and van, Warwards Lane, Birmingham, originally uploaded by new folder. Man and van, Warwards Lane, Birmingham (although I think van might be stretching it).

Dead parrot sketch

The chance to quiz an environmentalist about parrots is no more. From Birmingham FOE: “Sadly, the Tony Juniper discussion evening scheduled for 30th June has been cancelled. A small replacement event has been organised at the same location for anyone who does not get the notice or would like to attend… Discussion evening, 30th June, 7:30 til 9pm. Led by Chris Crean, Friends of the Earth West Midlands. Meeting Room 14, Birmingham and Midland Institute, Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS Limit of 25 people.”

Brum Link 25th June

Found this on teh interwebs: Just how green was the city's climate change event? – Birmingham Post – "West Midlands Friends of the Earth said the city council would be unable to plan properly to reduce environmental damage in future if it did not have an accurate understanding of carbon emissions created by today?s leisure events" Bigger Picture: Part 2 Should the library stay or go? – Birmingham Post (bounder in the propper paper, shock) – I love the Central Library. There, I?ve said it. The way the storeys fold out above you like some impossible stack of books, each larger and more crammed with knowledge than the last, is a view of wonder, a triumph of design and engineering over gravity

Birmingham’s Eccentric Archeologist Harry Palmer invites you to investigate a car park.

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Brum Link 24th June

Found this on teh interwebs: Lord Mayor embraces digital by streaming live to the city – Birmingham Post – In a marriage between one of Birmingham?s most ancient offices and one of the most modern of digital technologies, the Lord Mayor of Birmingham will be taking part in a live webcast. 25/6 on www.getintodigital.co.u

A twitcher’s history of Perry Barr

Superbly evocative nostalgia, for me anyway I remember this bird well, from Andy Mabbett: As a child, I was often taken to our local shopping centre in Perry Barr, north Birmingham (since replaced by a tin shed with pretensions of being a mall) to see a Mynah bird (Acridotheres tristis). It resided in what I now realise was a ridiculously small cage, on the counter of a petshop, and would delight all and sundry by asking repeatedly, “Where’s George?”, wolf whistling, or performing another of its many acts of mimicry.

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Is second place good enough to aim for?

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Dead parrot sketch

Brum Link 25th June

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A twitcher’s history of Perry Barr

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