Last year we went to Belgium on holiday and spent a day at the Bokrijk open air museum. It’s definitely worth a visit if youRead More
Author: Mike
We got a bread machine for Christmas. It took about a week before we got around to setting it up because we needed to clearRead More
The Knife Angel is in Coventry for the next few weeks. I don’t go into the City Centre very often but we happened to beRead More
Some posters have been taken down at Coventry railway station, revealing some 80s vintage poster fragments. I first noticed these a couple of weeks agoRead More
I walked past this place (opposite the small Ikea showroom in Birmingham city centre) occasionally while it was being fitted out. A few days agoRead More
These photos were taken back on the 3rd but I didn’t get around to copying them off my camera until today. This post is mainlyRead More
This morning I noticed that the Google Doodle was celebrating the 310th birthday of somebody called Hannah Glasse. The name sounded familiar. It turned outRead More
A few days ago I noticed that the bull outside the Bullring was wearing a new green hat, ready for St. Patrick’s Day. This morningRead More
I have decided to move my blog here, from its old home at mikedowney.co.uk. My old Blosxom based site was becoming too difficult to maintain.Read More