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En route to Newcastle to talk about my little choose your own adventure games at the AGCAS Conference.
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@sjeffs.bsky.social Great to see you out en route again! It's always so good to see people I know down that end of the route! Hope it went well for Matt!

Person holding medal in front of Birmingham skyline showing Rotunda and Selfridges. Distance 13.2 miles, Pace 8:23/mile, Time 1:50:21

AJ Bell Great Birmingham Run certificate. Time 1:50:21. 28th by Age Category!

So pleased to have smashed my previous PB by 5 minutes at the Great Birmingham Run half marathon yesterday! 🎉 Perfect running conditions this year #GreatBirminghamRun

Bulls in the City Art Trail The Bulls in the City art trail is brought to by the Birmingham Hospice who help people live well and spend the time they have left how they want to, and to be there for families, carers and loved one...

Another Wild In Art trail 'Bulls In the City' this summer 🔆 #Birmingham bullsinthecity.co.uk

Birmingham Light Festival is here ✨️ 11 artworks lighting up the city 19th-22nd Feb💡Great little after dark walking or running trail

The album Let Me Introduce My Friends by I'm From Barcelona (2006)

It's sunny and I'm listening to I'm From Barcelona ☀️ - after Daniel Kitson reminded me of it on his Resonance FM show this morning 💫☺️

I had my period of unemployment at the start of my career, and so since then I have always felt that I haven't got enough free time 😦

Dummy - Free Energy
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Maxïmo Park - Stream Of Life
The Bug Club - On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
LYR - An Unnatural History

Here we go then, my top 10 albums of the year, roughly in order:

Ed Harcourt - El Magnifico
The Umbrellas - Fairweather Friend
Drahla - angeltape
Chime School - The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel
Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther

Strange, as mine has the proper headings 🤷‍♀️

I did like the big windows on the Voyagers though. The windows on the Pendolinos (and iirc these) are really poky

Skyline of Birmingham City Centre viewed from Edgbaston Reservoir in 2015.

Skyline of Birmingham City Centre viewed from Edgbaston Reservoir in 2024. Many more skyscrapers on Broad Street can be seen

What a difference 9 years makes.

Skyline at Edgbaston Reservoir this day 9 years ago on the left, vs a few weeks ago on the right.

So many skyscrapers

Did some of the Berger at uni, along with various other big hitters Laura Mulvey, Foucault, Bourdieu - and this is why studying art history is important when we live in a visual world 🤦‍♀️

Wow the new Cure album is dark 🖤

Ed Harcourt playing a guitar amongst blue and pink lights

A soothing Ed Harcourt balm -- @ Hare and Hounds.
90-minute set!

Same with 35 suddenly becoming the new discounted age cut off a year or two after I passed it 🙄

A hidden patch of grass on the University of Birmingham campus

Back in my element 🌞 #secretlunchspot

View of an estuary from a train window

Taking the coast train to Tenby 🏖

So much for that heatwave you promised

O...kay.. so now we're having thunder when it's sunny and not raining

When you hear your MP on the radio doing Big News Things now 👀

Now we're talking 😍 -- @ Mikkeller Paris 🔆

Oh wow, no more Fabricant!

I shall go to the Ocean Colour Scene ball after all thanks to that Concert Week £25 ticket offer 🎉 A much more reasonable price. Sadly The Corrs' arena shows were not included 🙃😅
click.mailing.ticketmaster.com?qs=ee79fda9d...

Person with a medal in front of the Birmingham skyline.

Finish time 1:55:27

Challenging run in the blazing sun at #GreatBirminghamRun half marathon today, so only managed to scrape a PB by 5 seconds! Great atmosphere again along the route 🏃‍♀️ 🎉

Oh wow, I grew up in Lichfield. Didn't realise cool stuff was going on now!

Also, think I've found a case study of yours on our careers website! Just a heads up that we're archiving a lot of the case studies imminently, due to a web move - in case you wanted to save a copy of the webpage!

Simon Armitage and LYR performing on an outdoor stage

What a treat to see Simon Armitage and LYR performing their Blossomise EP at Charterhouse in Coventry 🌸☀️

New bookshop in the neighbourhood ✨️ The Bookshop on the Green in Bournville is relocating to Edgbaston Village - and they have a Crowdfunder to support with costs: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/green-hear...

The Umbrellas performing

Great to see The Umbrellas at @justdroppedin.bsky.social Coventry tonight for a bit of jangle pop - thanks @joesors.bsky.social
One of my albums of the year so far 🎶

ItsYourBuild - Birmingham on X: "Distinctive and innovative, or just ridiculous? 🤯 80 Broad Street, home to a vacant Grade II listed building, could be preserved and repurposed into a community hub, with a wrapped glass public viewing platform, and a 42-storey (133.5m) rising from its rear. #Birmingham https://t.co/l0izzvWPVu" / X Distinctive and innovative, or just ridiculous? 🤯 80 Broad Street, home to a vacant Grade II listed building, could be preserved and repurposed into a community hub, with a wrapped glass public viewing platform, and a 42-storey (133.5m) rising from its rear. #Birmingham https://t.co/l0izzvWPVu

Maybe this is what will end up happening to The Electric 😳 x.com/BuildsWeAre/...

Why are you archiving them?!