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#365daysofbiking Mist but not missed:

January 22nd - This is a very strange winter we’re having. I hope spring and summer prove more traditional. It’s not really been very cold, but it’s been horrendously wet. I’m so used to rain now that it barely surprises or bothers me, and I think I’m developing a love of it, like some weird meteorological Stockholm syndrome.

At the moment, the warm damp is masquerading as a heavy, cloying mist-drizzle that’s settled here for the best part of a week, really. It’s grimy and horrible to ride in, and is also keeping the fumes and smell down from the local landfills and industry, making the whole atmosphere feel dirty and polluted.

Leaving Bloxwich station I passed a couple of the town’s many backstreet boozers: The venerable Romping Cat, as classic a Black Country pub as one could find, and the more boisterous Spotted Cow, which despite a chequered history, hangs on as a popular local’s pub.

In the murky, nasty mist they looked beautifully warm and welcoming. I could have slipped in there and then for a pint.

But this wasn’t 1995, and that isn’t the current version of me. So I admired these watering holes from the street, remembered fondly long gone days with workmates and their many, many post-work pints, then rode home.

#365daysofbiking Striking shrooms:

September 24th - Passing by the memorial gardens in Bloxwich on my way home, a bright flash on a damp tree stop caught my eye.

Stopping and rolling back, some remarkable toadstools growing there. They look almost like tiger bread, and were brighter than even honey fungus. I have no idea what they are and haven’t had chance yet to look them up.

Remarkably beautiful.

#365daysofbiking Platform game:

October 25th - Unusually, I had stuff to do in Bloxwich, so returning from a meeting in Birmingham, I alighted there instead of Walsall. It was dark and the only lights on the platforms were in the waiting shelter.

🎹 🎵 Tuning a Bluthner Grand Piano at the Walsall Arena and Arts Centre, Walsall Bloxwich. This instrument uses aliquot stringing ( 4 Strings per note in the treble) 🎹 🎵

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Serial shoplifter given ‘one last chance to stop’ after seven thefts

A “professional shoplifter” who stole hundreds of pounds worth of stock from One Stop has been given “one more chance” to stay out of prison. Kelly Paddock, of Green Lane in Walsall, appeared at Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court on Monday, October 18, charged with seven counts of theft and one count of disorderly behaviour. The 41-year-old originally denied all of the thefts but changed her plea…

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#365daysofbiking That was a bit nippy:

November 18th - It was a cold, thankfully dry journey home. The roads were glistening with ice, and the main ones, a fresh scattering of road salt. 

The first icy commute home of the winter is always hard. My hands and face were cold. It hurt.

Stopping at a shop in the way home, I noticed that the temperature was marginally still above zero degrees Celsius.

That was a shock. it felt much colder.