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I received my free walking and cycling map of Birmingham a couple of days ago, and yesterday I decided to try cycling to work using the canal tow path routes. It was a little tricky to figure out from the map, simply because everything’s in such a tiny scale.

Acocks Green Birmingham 1098 Warwick Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B27 6BJ Bordesley Green Birmingham 140 Bordesley Green, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 4SU Bournville Birmingham 29 Sycamore Road, Bournville, Birmingham, West Midlands, B30 2AB Castle Bromwich

I was visiting Bridgette over at the Not-So-Blog Blog where she was inviting her readers to tell her about the places they lived. I am afraid I got quite carried away in her comments section and filled up more than several inches all about the lovely medieval village I am lucky enough to live in.

Congratulations to Canon Rob Morris and the other people of Kings Norton who have worked hard to preserve the Old Grammar School and Saracen’s Head. About four years ago the buildings were the winners in the second series of the BBC2 programme Restoration, in which viewers voted for it to be restored.

  I won. What more is there to write? I’ve never won a race in my life. Not ever. Not as a youth, not as an adult. So if you’ve arrived at this page expecting a full report on the runners and riders of race three of the Tour of Bournville then you may be disappointed. Instead there’ll be plenty of self-congratulation and discussion of my astonishing performance.