From a sunny day at the beach to a snow covered winter landscape in just a few days – isn’t weather absolutely fascinating. It’s no wonder that we spend the majority of our time talking about it.

It did also provide the opportunity for me to take yet another photo of Selly Park from (roughly) the same viewpoint to compare different conditions.
So far we have autumn, frost and now snow.

Looking briefly at the stats for this site the other day made one point very obvious. Thanks to my ongoing survey of different cider brands, and therefore the number of cider related posts, the majority of people who appear to stumble here by way of a search engine are doing so whilst looking for cider related content!

…and now I feel guilty for not having reviewed any cider recently – don’t worry, I’ll be back on the case soon.

Finally for now, after reading this post on View From The Hill about using public transport I thought, yes, good point well made. So isn’t it a shame then that this year saw the bus prices in Birmingham rise by 17%, way above inflation, from £1.20 to £1.40 standard fare.

Now I’m not necessarily saying that £1.40 is a bad price for a bus fare, particularly for those that live a good distance out of the city centre (not me!) – but a sudden rise of 17% isn’t exactly going to encourage people to jump onto public transport and save the environment now is it?