Doing The Round

 Things need a bit of livening up around here! Plus, I'm bored.


 So what am I doing about it? I am searching for local blogs, first of all. I found one by restricting google to the blogspot domain, and searching on Brum, the nickname of this fair town. Oddly enough, there are people out there with the name Brum, so the results aren't as local as I'd like, and I'm going to try again with a more refined search.


 The first decent hit was this blog written by an academic from the US who has taken a job at one of the local universities. I could write an entry commenting on that blog, but that's a pretty lame thing to do when I could be making up my own, far more creative content. Suffice to say that the bit about plumbing raised a couple of laughs, because I too curse the stuckism of Brits as regards domestic improvements.



 On to the next find.



 Going back to Google and using Birmingham UK as search terms, top of the list is a blog by an academic - from New Zealand - who has taken a job at one of the other local universities. Going one step further than the American, this blog is also an audio feed from a New Zealand webcaster. Not that the link to the feed worked, mind you, so in the end, nothing of substance came of it. So, aside from the fact that this guy also has complaints about life in Britain - this time about the lack of responsible service provision, there isn't a whole lot of interesting stuff happening in my neighbour's lives.



 Further browsing turned up no items of interest.