Birmingham meet up....

Thanks everyone! See you at 11 at Grand Central I guess, thanks for pioneering work, Nonnie!

11 is good for me too.

Yes Elrel, 11 is fine for me.

11 still good?

Well someone had to do it! Went to Grand Central yesterday and liked it. The restaurant/coffee shop in John Lewis is on the top floor. It is quite big so I would suggest we meet in the section totally opposite to where the food is served. You will know you are in the right place if you can see a blue bull on the wall made of plates. What time?

I think it's down to John Lewis or BMAG but awaiting a brave intrepid explorer to check out the former....not sure if I'm spending just the day or a couple of days in Brum....the days and weeks seem to be running away with themselves and I'll be away with no internet access the week before; however nothing is happening from 18th onwards so I can slot in with any change of plan, even if another date is chosen. [other than Friday 23rd when I've got the children].

I am too - just a little unsure re where we're meeting! There have been several suggestions since I posted that we'd meet at BMAG! Still plenty of time however and by then someone is sure to know what Grand Central has to offer!

Me too!

I am!

Just thought I should bump this up every now and again....are we still on course?

For those with an interest in Birmingham

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYb55WhG_oA of course I think they should have included a dancer!

Yes I sent her an e-mail too but not answered yet. I think she may be in her Highland bolt hole.

Teetime, waiting to hear from gj but she seems not to have been on GN lately.

Long tails, didn't notice the ears. Pretty sure they were rats.

If you could see their tails, were they short and furry (water voles) or long and naked (rats) ? Were their ears small and laid-back (water voles) or large and sticky-up (rats)

If they were water voles you were very lucky to see some shy animals who have become much rarer than they used to be, mostly thanks to mink (who are slim enough to follow them into their burrows and take out the whole family) but also to the way stream-side vegetation is cleared back so much more these days.

Did they have tails, nonnie ?

Nonnie; perhaps they were water voles. I used to see 'rats' in the canal years ago and realised later they were water voles. Yes; I'd like to get to the EM meet up as well .

kitty I'll come to MH have you a date in mind?

Zimmer frames?

Then we'll all stand there in a group and see what it shows ..could be interesting!

We walked round Edgbaston reservoir a couple of months ago and were the only ones walking, everyone else was running and puffing! Saw some rats, why is it they look OK in their natural habitat but not near houses?

Did I hear that the 'eye' monitors the public to see what type of person is around and advertises accordingly?

Someone on the Winson Green facebook page suggested a walk round Edgbaston Reservoir which led to us talking about the two towers and then someone put up 'The Eye of Sauron' .

Nonnie: over the past year or so it's been remarkably easy to get lost IN New Street Station as they altered bits of it almost weekly to cope with the rebuilding!
kittylester: Sorry you won't be coming after all but I found the gluten-free research I did fascinating!
Tegan: the eye is, err, large, dominates what I assume to be the main entrance and impossible to overlook. I thought it reminded me of The Great Gatsby but suspect that you are correct re Lord of the Rings. When I saw it last week I got the impression that it was blinking ...

Nice of you to think of me but I don't think I said I could come at all! I hoping for a Market Harborough one with granjura and others from round here.

Tegan 'weird' is far more polite than I would have used for the old New St station, I am hoping the new one is a massive improvement.