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As well as being the Community Manager for Yelp Birmingham, I also write reviews on places I visit in the city. It’s the go to place for what’s going on in Brummie land! Find all my reviews here

As published on Enterprise Nation Enterprise Nation community member Rickie Josen became our first StartUp Saturday franchisee on Saturday 22nd September, taking a class for new business owners in Hotel La Tour, Birmingham. Here’s her account of the day. The first StartUp Saturday outside Birmingham arrived with seven intrepid business people making their way to [...]

Just had to write a quick review on this years Jazz & Blues festival. First of all, the regular reader will know I adore this festival, it’s a highlight of the year and I work my schedule around it. The different between this the 28th and 27th festivals is that last year there was more [...]

Regular readers may have noticed I’d disappeared and not posted the usual 3-4 times per week in the last month or so. The reason is I’ve been doing a large project for new in town Yelp. Yelp is a review website, born in San Francisco, now everywhere. They wanted to get Yelp Birmingham off the ground [...]

You know I’m a big fan of Afternoon Tea and I’ve already tried out Mint Hotel (now Hilton), Hotel Du Vin and Hyatt Regency (twice for good measure). So I’m delighted to get an alert from new kid (although a mighty big kid) on the indie block, Hotel La Tour. It’s interesting that Hotel La [...]

Readers of this blog will know how much I have grown to love walking discovery tours. What started as a way of getting to know San Francisco on a short trip there, grew to having  month of to discover my home town, Bedford. In the last year or so, it’s been an excellent way of [...]

Those of you who know me on Twitter will have noticed I’ve been to every single Live Music Friday evening at Urban Coffee Co but now I’m delighted there’s a second coffee house to embrace one of life’s pleasures. I’ve loved live music in coffee shops ever since I first saw a man and a [...]

After brunch, my favourite meal is Afternoon Tea. Not (Devon) cream tea, which is just scones with jam and cream and not ‘High Tea,’ a large meal with savoury and sweet delights which is served around 5-6pm, perhaps if you are going out for the evening – both of which I also love. For someone [...]

Last year, OxJam was not only one of my best Birmingham discoveries but one of my favourite days of the year. Last year we caught a few soloists like Neil Ward but the highlight was city favourite Tom Peel at arguably the best venue, The Victoria. So I am very much looking forward to this [...]

Sewing Words I didn’t think I’d say part 54: I learnt to sew. A few weeks ago, I went to a craft work shop with the lovely ladies from Creative Open Workshops. It’s not that I’m a complete novice to sewing, I can sew a button and hem badly and I grew up with my [...]