May 31, 2016

Don't be fooled. She's a monster.

May 30, 2016

May 29, 2016

May 28, 2016

May 27, 2016

May 26, 2016

May 25, 2016

My own ideas for literary cocktails: The Old Man and the Sea Breeze; Sex on the beach in the City; Uncle Tom Collins' Cabin; Watership Down in One (a carrot juice and tequila slammer); and Bloody Mary Poppins.

May 24, 2016

May 23, 2016

May 22, 2016

May 21, 2016

Not missing; idle.

May 20, 2016

A story in three photos. (The middle photo is not Beretta - I thought I'd found him, but no. Still, there was a happy ending.)

May 19, 2016

May 18, 2016

Hamble Ferry:

May 17, 2016

Ducklings!

May 16, 2016

May 15, 2016

Another type of lift - and one of the main reasons for visiting Aston.

May 14, 2016

The top of the sky lifts.

May 13, 2016

May 12, 2016

May 11, 2016

Up on the roof, next to the Birmingham Astronomy Society's ace clubhouse.

May 10, 2016

May 9, 2016

May 8, 2016

May 7, 2016

May 6, 2016

A tour of the hidden spaces at Aston University. First up, the old boiler rooms. This used to be coal-fired, complete with a man shovelling coal in all day.

May 5, 2016

Guess who was staying at our hotel? The Southampton squad! (They beat Villa 4-2.)

May 4, 2016

The death of British Brutalism in Birmingham. The old library will be replaced with a generic glass/stone bank. Yay.

May 3, 2016

A false level of precision?

May 2, 2016

And, apparently, not in The North.

May 1, 2016

Doncaster: so pretty from a distance.