Watching the Villa game with the commentary muted is highly recommended. Not having to listen to Martin “The Mekon” Keown literally contradict reality is nothing short of bliss 🤓
Umbrella novella (ii)
From Matisse to Magritte, Mary Poppins to Kingsman, the umbrella’s iconic silhouette permeates our art & culture.
So I’m not alone in this umbrella obsession. I enjoy how its theatrical shape interacts with people as they walk the city streets, come rain or shine ☔️😊📸
Umbrella novella (i)
During one of the recent rainy days, I was going through folders of my photos, doing a bit of file tidying & organising.
I noticed (with no small irony!) that I have a propensity for snapping people using umbrellas ☔️ around the City
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#streetphotography #umbrella
Other People’s Litter
Ten minutes in my front garden with my litter-picker stick. Ten minutes & this bag was full of people’s rubbish. Plastic bags, sauce bottles, toddler’s shoes, nappies, beer cans, PLUS a metal fan stuffed in the hedge.
‘Keep Britain Tidy”?!? 😢 I shake my stick at you angrily 🤬
Our youngest is turning twenty, hip hip hip hooray. Our children are all grown up and we’re gonna run away 😂🎂🎉🏃🏃♀️🏃♂️🏃🏃♀️🏃♂️🏃🏃♀️🏃♂️
@suemasonburns.bsky.social is a bit parky 🤣🥶
The FA cup at Villa Park! Fingers crossed it’s a positive sign from the gods of football!
Up the Villa!
#astonvilla #avfc #holteendersinthesky
Do you sell buckets? 🙃
Looking forward to my Valentine’s Day date down the Villa with @suemasonburns.bsky.social Lots of shouting, visceral passion & scoring goals, we know how to partay 🤣🥰😘
I used to sing “See the face you love light up with a flamethrower” to the Terry’s All Gold advert🔥🔥🔥
Oy oy! Wee Jimmy Krankie’s in the house!
Cheering on Leeds a little bit too 🤣
Rainy Digbeth Night
A rain-soaked night walk around Digbeth, with interesting scenes and characters aplenty 😂📸
#streetphotography #fujixt20 #digbeth
6am in the City
Sometimes I can’t sleep, so I’ll go walking to tire myself out. On this occasion I walked as far as the City just before dawn as the early mists were rising.
#birmingham #streetphotography #shotonlumix
This.
Be well Buddy, rooting for you! 👊
That’s perfectly normal, especially if it needs oiling, which is particularly satisfying to watch or partake in 🤣
Nah, they’ll just blow back again on the next breeze. Loppers are much more effective (and satisfying), or a chainsaw 🤣🤣🤣
Digbeth before dawn
A view across the Custard Factory towards the omnipresent cranes and evolving lift shifts of the Digbeth skyline. The early morning fog rolling in across Bordesley adds a Blade Runner quality that I really enjoy photographing 🤩
Digbeth, 2026.
#digbeth #urbanphotography
Jeez mate, what a bloody shock for you and your Fam! Sending mega-positive vibes to you, keeping my fingers crossed for a hopeful diagnosis going forward. Be well 👊🤞🙏🏻
Just for you @jomonty.bsky.social
Villa fans, we’ve been blessed of late, winning games in swashbuckling fashion. Today, a resolute Brentford side done us over. Villa have come so far under Unai Emery & clubs want to beat us. Despite the terrific atmosphere & banter, a sucker punch goal & VAR controversy sank us.
Such is football ⚽️
Prefer it when you use the cat’o’nine tails tbh, less bruising 😂
Back down the Villa again!
And yes, that geezer is trying to eat my ear! We’re right by the corner flag so on arse watch for @jomonty.bsky.social 📸
Up the bloody Villa!
