Bit of a break from writing so just to get up to date again we are now back in Birmingham after some cruising around the Black Country including a three  day trip to Aldi  up the Essington and Wryley canal also known as the curly wurley before that we did spend some time in town including a visit to see the stage version of Mama Mia and also some street entertainment with  acrobatic snakes and ladders .Tonight just for a change on the way back from a rubbish run(walk) to the disposal point we called in at the Fiddle and Bone pub where there was a live band playing music from the sixties and seventies so had to stop for a pint only the one though at nearly four pounds a go but never the less good music Tomorrow we are back in the hands of network rail ? for a trip to Nottingham tickets bought online , collected today good gawping time at the stations ?


          Moored at Wolverhampton top lock quite a nice place despite the main road next to us

Spider men cleaning the windows in Birmingham no hose pipes just a good head for heights

The war memorial next to the library very nice flowers round it 

The two guys in the cherry picker were burning that steel off , it was around ten meters long
supported by the crane on the right  when it dropped and started swinging round , they were very lucky it missed them

a very interesting unit custom made from an Ivico panel van fitted with a new body to look like a full size unit and towing a fith wheel style caravan converted to a display unit they were selling Swiss made luxury wc`s which were complete with wash and blow dry at four and a half grand each
I was talking to the German driver who told me just after he got there his bike was nicked from behind the van ruining his plans of exploring the city while the sales team were in action in the u

                                               the Curly Wurly full of weed

Four young ladies playing three D snakes and ladders