‘Building something better’: the UK residents #retrofitting their homes, streets and communities amid the #ClimateCrisis

#BalsallHeath #Ladywood #Birmingham #Solarpunk
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/03/building-uk-residents-retrofitting-homes-climate-crisis

"The Balsall Heath Bohemians : Stewart Lee celebrates the Birmingham Surrealists"

#Birmingham #BalsallHeath #BBCRadio4

(mentions the Trocadero Pub ... yeah ... that shite hole ...)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p6rs

♞ Life-sized chess pieces, alcohol-guzzling nuns and crucified, naked, bespectacled men. The story of British Surrealism began not in Bohemian London but in a Birmingham suburb. Of course it did.

Comedian and writer Stewart Lee revels in the story of The Balsall Heath Bohemians.

#art #surrealism #Birmingham #WestMidlands #StewartLee #comedy #comedian #StandUp #BalsallHeath #MastodonComedy

https://bbc.in/3QF1IHU