Jon Bounds live blogged, when his 3G card on his laptop worked, and this is what was said:
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9:36
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Just spoke to Phil Upton on BBC WM, he’s such a nice guy. |
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10:04
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My Dad (who is retired and has a lot of time on his hands) has decided on a whim to get on the bus today… He’s like a smaller, older version of me. |
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11:23
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Safely on the bus, Sat upstairs at back like all the hard kids. Peter Plisner filming us for Midlands Today. |
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11:25
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Cotteridge, past the cafe where the ammusments sign fell off an made a slightly ‘medical’ term. Will find the photo on flickr. |
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11:34
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done a quick interview. propper blogging to come. just going past the new QE. looks stunning from the outside |
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11:39
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Harbourne |
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11:41
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Brum is really really green. |
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11:43
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I forgot to set the video, can someone tape Midlands Today later for me? |
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11:48
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apart from bearwood, of course. It does have loads of independant shops, and great visuals tho’ |
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11:50
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from the top deck on city rd you can see all sorts. charming MG disolving into the ground in a garden |
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12:10
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Rookery Rd has its own Winterval lights |
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12:11
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Going to pass my old junior school in a moment. Used to get the 11C to Boys’ Brigade sometimes on a Thurdsay after school. |
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12:14
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Handsworth Wood Girls Schoo (not my old juniour school) is all boarded up. PIity, it looks like an interesting building. |
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12:16
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Citizensheep has a live blog too http://citizensheep.com/blog/2008/11/11/today-i-shall-be-spending-11-hours-on-the-bus/ |
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12:16
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Perry Barr. Hi UCE types. |
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3:03
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back round to the QE. |
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3:12
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discovered the mobile coveritlive. More bloggage |
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3:13
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coming back round to Winsom Green |
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3:23
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wondering what to do when it gets dark. Will we be able to see anything? |
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3:24
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is City rd a roman road? Long, long and straight. |
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3:28
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lack of the bus art sculptures round this route |
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3:43
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fool standing in the middle of soho rd |
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3:44
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first music of the day |
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3:46
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Old buildings had so much more care taken over them |
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3:50
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loads of polski shops on oxhill rd |
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3:53
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the open street map guys have gps’d the route. Yay |
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4:02
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birchfield road library is gone. Is there a replacement? |
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4:16
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doing a bit of tour guiding, most 11-11-11ers are not brummies |
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4:17
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dark is darking in |
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4:19
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smelling the Ganga |
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4:20
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one and a half circuits so for |
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4:24
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Traffic jams up by the fort |
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4:26
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batteries depleeting, charging stop needed. |
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7:12
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harbourne. Home to nurses |
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7:35
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in The Vine. It’s a huge pub, very empty. |
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8:24
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the bins in harbourne are labled ‘harbourne’ rather than the more conventional ‘bin’ |
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8:37
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flagging now. It’s too difficult to time it right to finish at ten at the right place. It’ll be nearly 12 hours on the bus I think. |
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8:44
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just to big-up Birmingham’s yellow street lighting rather than solihull’s white stuff |
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9:17
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there’s another hare and hounds in stockland green |
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9:24
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have discovered the missing “way” at six says erdington. It’s blocked off. Campaign to rename inf five ways starts now |
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10:15
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done it. Knackered. |
| 10:15 | [Standby] The host is placing this Live Blog into Standby Mode. |
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12:04
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