Gravely Hill is for the tourists; it's not until you're tooling down the Aston Expressway and feeling the wind in your hair as you cruise Smallbrook Queensway that you know you're in Brum.

Incidentally, we took a trip last weekend to a small craft village near Frodsham in Cheshire to the candle shop there. The shop is owned and run by Bob Carolgees, late of the mighty Tiswas, which he appeared on with Spit the Dog. We chatted with him about the show, candles and the clubs around Solihull for a while and I bought a Spit puppet from him (I'm only 42 so am sill allowed this sort of thing). Nice to meet a Tiswas legend. Bostin : )

Up the Villa! Right up the Blues!