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Best time to visit is on one of New Hall Mills open days - then you can do both together! Big car park - free entry - tea room with wonderful cakes - loads of stalls open on each day. http://www.newhallmill.org.uk/opens.htm

Hi Lyn - mobility access is fine - there is a good path from Wylde Green Road end to Reddicap end - car parks at both ends and 2 entrances off Ebrook Rd - there is also a boardwalk in the middle of the park which is accessible by scooter for about half its length. Footpath entrances from other...

Walking the dogs yesterday I caught one of the "locals" fishing without a licence:- Note the string of water between the two halves of its beak/bill as it eats it:- Then the Egret was off to look for more:-

New Hall Valley Country Park is a country park located in New Hall Valley between Walmley and Sutton Coldfield. It is the first new country park in the UK for over a decade. Created with funding raised from the release of land for the New Hall Manor Estate development and formally opened on 29...

Actually no - best routine ever is the mega-rare version of the "Aston Villa Football Club Skinhead Supporters Song" (original was about Bickenhill Rovers I think but this one is MUCH better) - the one that would NEVER have been played on Radio 1. "It could be about any football club, at any...

I remember seeing him, early 80's, just after Ron Saunders had "defected" from Villa to Blues. He ended the first half of the show with "A Visitors Guide to Birmingham", showing pictures of various aspects of the city on a big screen behind him with an hilarious commentary. After a bit a picture...

Taken about an hour later - Mars (bottom left) and moon even closer together:-

Try this one:- Tells you all about the Staaaaaaaaaaggggggggggg!!!

And a few more:-

Here are a few posters etc:-

Just taken - Mars and Moon very close to each other tonight - Mars at bottom left:- Loads of lunar detail visible tonight:-

The bus above is beautifully restored - but once upon a time it was in Birds Scrapyard in Stratford awaiting "the torch":-

I drove past "the village" the other day - the bit in the middle of the road now looks like a scrap yard and I shudder to think what the flats must be like shut up and unaired for 3 years........ And remember - the Walsall Rd flyover was pulled down at a cost of £30M+ as it was "an eyesore" to...

Brilliant Photos - thank you!!!

Yes please post them!!!

Hi Pedrocut - not at all! I've reviewed the photos I took the other night and found a better one - here is Wrottesley Crater in close up:- It is actually easier to see this in the twilight - once it was dark a couple of hours later it does not stand out as well:- And move on 4-5 days and you...

As promised:-

Its site now houses Bark Doggy Daycare Centre - pictures later!

Still there I think - will try to get a up to date photo tonight when I walk the dogs

Last night we had an interloper into the planetary parade - a gorgeous thin crescent moon:- The red glow on the trees is a bonfire 2 houses down....