Aston Villa are *in* the neighbourhood! Not a football fan, but caught a glimpse of the buses between buildings from my balcony 😲 #B16

Another great day at the #GreatBirminghamRun New 10k PB achieved of 51:12 🥳 Convinced @onesharper.bsky.social to do it this year 💕 Also what a medal this year! A nod to Birmingham’s musical history 💜💿

Favourite albums of 2025 were ⭐Self Esteem - A Complicated Woman ⭐Melin Melyn - Mill on the Hill The rest of the Top 10 is presented in release date order: Mogwai - The Bad Fire Ex Void - In Love Again The Limiñanas - Faded The Tubs - Cotton Crown Sacred Paws - Jump Into Life [1/2]

💡Name💡In💡Lights!💡 En route to Newcastle to talk about my little choose your own adventure games at the AGCAS Conference. Achievement unlocked ✅️ #EmployabilityForAll

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

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

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

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 💫☺️

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

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

Wow the new Cure album is dark 🖤

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

Back in my element 🌞 #secretlunchspot

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...

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 🏃‍♀️ 🎉

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...

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 🎶

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

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

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Found it hard to narrow down my Top Albums this year, so not overthinking it and going with the "tiers" approach. The God Tier is probably roughly in order, but I would refer to them all as Top 5. The Top Tier I found I kept going back to these albums, which I think there is something to be said for

Keeping it #TShirtDay en route to Boundaries festival in Sunderland, wearing my "The Bug Club played 1000 gigs and I was there" tshirt – bought just after t-shirt day last year at their Birmingham gig 🪲

Introduce yourself using three books you love: - The Invoice by Jonas Karlsson - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon

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Introduce yourself using three books you love: - The Organs of Sense by Adam Ehrlich Sachs - Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys - The Invoice by Jonas Karlsson