… there you are.   I couldn’t have done this hobo nomadic thing before now.  I guess I could, but it would have been very different.  Before it would have been about getting away from something or trying to find something I didn’t have.  I don’t feel like there’s anything I want to get away…

http://boos.audioboo.fm/swf/fullsize_player.swfOriginally posted on Lloyd’s posterous

This is a gulley between Kingshurst Road and Hazel Croft. A gulley is just an alleyway, a path between houses, I don’t know how widely the dialect is spread. It’s the bit that runs behind what used to be my grandparents’ house.  I used to walk to school this way as it was a (very…

I put my pen in my pocket As is my habit But I left the lid off Now my jeans sport a big black blob And I don’t know how much ink I’ve lost Originally posted on Lloyd’s posterous

On Sunday I took a stroll over from Stirchley where I was staying to Northfield.  I wrote this after a little wandering around. I’m in Northfield.  Specifically, I’m in McDonalds.  It seems to be the only place open on a Sunday that you can sit and drink coffee.  My Grandma would have been appalled.  I’m…

I sat here and had my lunch today.  It’s the churchyard of St Laurence’s Church in Northfield.  It’s the church where I was christened 40 years ago this summer, it’s also the churchyard where my paternal grandparents are remembered.  I attended the CofE primary school next door, which has since been turned into houses, so…

I’ve noticed these since I’ve been back through Birmingham a few times, the old cast iron street signs like this: are being replaced (or at least augmented) with plastic copies like this: I’m sure this will have been noticed elsewhere (oh yes).  I don’t like. I’d rather have the old one’s left as they are,…

I met Clare Hedin at #tuttle a couple of weeks ago.  She was talking about an event she wants to run called “The Big Connect” sounds like my kind of thing, so we spoke briefly but then she had to leave before the end.  Just as I was about to leave there myself I got…

At the beginning, I thought that by now I might be wanting to stop wandering and settle again. Nope. I’m not thinking of settling again just yet. It’s working.  It’s working for me, it’s working for the people closest to me.  I don’t hear anyone saying “please, stay here and do this thing”.  There are…