Author Topic: Little Eye On The Provinces  (Read 384281 times)

Wombat

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3375 on: 24 April, 2024, 06:07:03 pm »
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24246748.blow-up-doll-found-abandoned-shocked-dog-walker/

Knowing that area, she had a hard and active life.

Looks like it must have gone down on its last owner.  Oh, sorry, wrong thread.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3376 on: 02 May, 2024, 07:49:34 am »
https://tradfolk.co/news/nude-morris-dancers/

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3377 on: 08 May, 2024, 10:17:10 pm »
It's like the old saying goes: Give a Brummie enough space and they'll park a car on it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14k2100q5ro

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3378 on: Yesterday at 12:31:59 pm »
It's horrible but it's sadly normal. I used to live next to Victoria Park in Bath and it was actually allowed to use it for car parking while you went into town for a day. Albeit mostly on the tarmac.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3379 on: Yesterday at 12:41:50 pm »
Yes, there's a large gravel area (which AIUI covers some sort of drainage infrastructure) at the other end of Cannon Hill Park that's routinely used for hosting funfairs and Teletubbies Peppa Sodding Pig In The Night Garden Live events, which gets re-purposed as a car park in the event of the Commonwealth Games or (more commonly) Cricket.  That's properly marshalled and is effectively Out Of The Way of people doing normal park things.

(There's an area of Calthorpe Park that also gets turned into a car park for cricketers, which seems even more gratuitous.)

More usually, when there's an outbreak of decent weather, the locals flock to the roads around Cannon Hill Park to circle and hoot, before eventually finding somewhere to pavement-park.  It would probably be quicker to walk, but if we're going to apply that sort of logic the Hagley Road wouldn't exist.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3380 on: Yesterday at 12:43:21 pm »
Yebbut I'm pleased to say that Victoria Park, being in Not Brum, is now pretty much car-free.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3381 on: Yesterday at 02:12:26 pm »
More usually, when there's an outbreak of decent weather, the locals flock to the roads around Cannon Hill Park to circle and hoot, before eventually finding somewhere to pavement-park.
"I was looking for somewhere to park" is probably a common excuse when caught kerb-crawling on Cheddar Road.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3382 on: Yesterday at 02:16:21 pm »
More usually, when there's an outbreak of decent weather, the locals flock to the roads around Cannon Hill Park to circle and hoot, before eventually finding somewhere to pavement-park.
"I was looking for somewhere to park" is probably a common excuse when caught kerb-crawling on Cheddar Road.

Cheddar Road isn't what it used to be.

I believe Basil has form for getting distracted there...

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3383 on: Yesterday at 02:33:10 pm »
More usually, when there's an outbreak of decent weather, the locals flock to the roads around Cannon Hill Park to circle and hoot, before eventually finding somewhere to pavement-park.
"I was looking for somewhere to park" is probably a common excuse when caught kerb-crawling on Cheddar Road.

Cheddar Road isn't what it used to be.

I believe Basil has form for getting distracted there...

Guilty as charged.  ;D
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barakta

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3384 on: Yesterday at 06:14:51 pm »
Sounds like a lot of cars in Cannon Hill park should have been ticketed nice and hard, or even towed away. No sympathy at all. Everyone knows there's no driving in there except for wardens at 5mph.

One of the things I HATE about Birmingham, entitled motons.

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3385 on: Yesterday at 06:40:17 pm »
More usually, when there's an outbreak of decent weather, the locals flock to the roads around Cannon Hill Park to circle and hoot, before eventually finding somewhere to pavement-park.
"I was looking for somewhere to park" is probably a common excuse when caught kerb-crawling on Cheddar Road.

Cheddar Road isn't what it used to be.

I believe Basil has form for getting distracted there...

Guilty as charged.  ;D
Well, they did put an NCN route along it!
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3386 on: Yesterday at 10:35:37 pm »
Is that the road that Kim led me along one night on a ride to the Rollrights ?  Ladies in front windows like a low rent Amsterdam?



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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3387 on: Yesterday at 10:40:11 pm »
Cannon Hill Park sounds like the starting place for a Tunnels Ride…
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #3388 on: Yesterday at 10:48:55 pm »
Is that the road that Kim led me along one night on a ride to the Rollrights ?  Ladies in front windows like a low rent Amsterdam?

Cannon Hill Park sounds like the starting place for a Tunnels Ride…

Yes and yes, respectively.