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Paul Fulford

Ill-mannered brats and their loud parents

SHE had one of those unprepossessing, moon-shaped faces that are as vacant as the boarded-up Woolworths stores in our high streets.Read

La Banca, 1896 Pershore Road, Kings Norton. 0121 459 2204

AFTER a night on the lash, many young Romans go for a bite to eat in much the same way that we Brummies might pop for a balti and naan.Read

Paul Fulford

Mad world of motorists and the malicious

HE STOOD in the middle of the road, eyes bulging, face flushed, arms flailing manically, blocking the path of a car that had screeched round an island and hurling a blue torrent of abuse at the driver.Read

Pascal's, 1 Montague Road, Edgbaston. Tel: 0121 455 0999.

WHAT’S pink, wobbly and utterly irresistible?Read

Paul Fulford

A weighty issue of commercialism

SOME of those who frequent gyms tell me that bitchiness festers in their changing rooms like a unwashed leotard.Read

Piccolino, 9 Brindleyplace, Birmingham. 0121 634 3055.

HERE’S an example of a thoroughly enjoyable meal spoiled by one thing – the bill.Read

Paul Fulford

We can only hope for a better world

TWENTY years after the Berlin Wall fell amid scenes of jubilation, the notion of communism as a system of government is largely dismissed.Read

Turmeric Jones, 123 The Parade, Sutton Coldfield. 0121 355 4568.

MORE than three decades had passed since I last ventured into this room in the days when I had hair and hope.Read

Paul Fulford

Cops bus ops won’t drive out yobs

IT’S not widely known, but Hannibal Lecter has started to catch the Number 50 bus to his home in Druids Heath. Though perhaps it’s some other criminal of equally notorious and terrifying repute.Read

Safer travelling initiative doesn't wash with this bus user

IT’S not widely known, but Hannibal Lecter has started to catch the Number 50 bus to his home in Druids Heath. Though perhaps it’s some other criminal of equally notorious and terrifying repute.Read

It’s looking up for Vic

n IN HER latest underwear photo-shoot for Emporio Armani, Victoria Beckham can be seen climbing a ladder while wearing high heels. Victoria, pictured, posed for a series of shots taken by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.Read

New Sum Ye, B105 Arcadian, Hurst Street, Birmingham. 0121 622 1525

WHISPER it softly for Birmingham’s balti restaurants have many vociferous fans.Read

Paul Fulford

Home so sweet after airport agony

THERE are few certainties in life. But one thing is pretty clear.Read

Opus, Cornwall Street, Birmingham, 0121 200 2323

SMOKED eel’s a thing that divides the men from the boys – causing wrinkled noses among the squeamish and squeals of delight among those who know better.Read

World at Brum’s feet with swine flu!

APOCALYPTIC predictions are the stuff of the insane or the deluded. So I feel well qualified to wade in with one.Read

Urban Pie, The Bull Ring, Birmingham. 0121 665 6542

SOLITARY pursuits are notoriously embarrassing, especially when performed in public.Read

Paul Fulford

It should be our own choice to end this agony

WHILE the Birmingham-born conductor Edward Downes and his wife Joan lay dying peacefully in a Swiss centre that assists suicides, a friend was tending a young relative who was approaching an agonising and undignified death.Read

The Spice Exchange, 1845 Pershore Road, Cotteridge, Birmingham. 0121 458 5707

THE menu didn’t mince its words when it came to describing the onion bhaji on offer at the Spice Exchange.Read

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