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What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week Dec 09 2011

CHRISTMAS Delights at Soho House, Handsworth, will give visitors the chance to see industrialist Matthew Boulton’s former home decorated with festive greenery and to discover some Christmas traditions of the past.Read

Days Out: Umberslade Farm, Butts Lane, Tanworth-in-Arden Dec 09 2011

MOST young children will get the chance to participate in a school Nativity play.Read

Urban Walk: Moat Lane, Birmingham B5 5BD. Dec 02 2011

THE city centre at this time of year excites me.Read

Days Out: Winter Wonderland 2011, Tamworth Snowdome. Dec 02 2011

WITH parachuting penguins, huge illuminated candy canes and Zippy and George, the Snowdome’s Winter Wonderland is back.Read

Days Out and Walk in the Park: The Tolkien Trail and Moseley Bog. Nov 25 2011

ISN’T IT lovely to show people around our fair city when the opportunity arises?Read

Urban Walk: Bottetourt Road, Weoley Castle B29 5TE Nov 25 2011

AS WE begin to approach the shortest day of the year on December 21, there’s the temptation to hibernate.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week from Friday, November 25, 2011. Nov 25 2011

SANTA’S Winter Wonderland is back for its seventh year at Tamworth Snowdome, Leisure Island, River Drive, Tamworth B79 7ND.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week from Friday, November 18, 2011. Nov 18 2011

I, CLAUDIUS star Derek Jacobi (Saturday only) and The Champioins actors Alexandra Bastedo and William Gaunt are at this weekend’s NEC Memorabilia Show.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week. Nov 11 2011

A REMEMBRANCE Sunday service will be held in Centenary Square.Read

Days Out: Lost in Lace, in the Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Nov 11 2011

AS THE dark nights cut in, now is a good time to start looking indoors again for some great Days Out ideas.Read

Walk In The Park: Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses Nov 11 2011

THIS weekend, many people will be devoting their time to praying for those who gave their lives for our freedom.Read

Days Out: Bancroft Cruisers in Stratford Nov 04 2011

WITH the new movie Anonymous claiming that William Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays, it felt like the perfect time to revisit Stratford-upon-Avon.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week. Nov 04 2011

WEST Midland Safari Park at Bewdley will stage its latest Fireworks Festival on Saturday when the finale will represent The Lion King’s ‘Circle of Life’.Read

Urban Walk: Stirchley Community Centre, Pershore Road, B30 2XS. Oct 28 2011

MY second successive week in Stirchley goes in the opposite direction to Bournville. From busy roads, this walk takes you to an elegant village green and leafy suburb built by Quaker patrons with an eye for decent housing and living spaces for their workers. The walk includes a great butchers and bakers as well as some very quaint architecture, normally only seen in quiet rural areas.Read

Walk in the Park: The Woodland Play Area at The Radleys Park, Sheldon Oct 28 2011

SOMETIMES in life you can find the finest of things in the most unexpected of places – which is why it always pays to keep an open mind.Read

Days Out: Rays Farm in Billingsley Oct 28 2011

HE was created by an American visitor to Edgbaston in 1818.Read

Days Out: Arley Arboretum in Worcestershire Oct 21 2011

ONE of the ways I judge our Days Out adventures is to imagine how I would feel if visiting from abroad.Read

Urban Walk: Stirchley Community Centre, 1326 Pershore Road, B30 2XS. Oct 21 2011

THIS week’s route is one of my seasonal favourites and a lovely local one for me.Read

What's On: Two Minute Guide to the Week. Oct 21 2011

THE Honey Honey Show is the world’s first ABBA concert for children.Read

Walk In The Park: Eliot Street Recreation Ground, Nechells Oct 21 2011

CAN you guess which area this week’s park is in?Read

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