December 26, 2012
Just before Christmas the Harte family took their first ever trip to New York. Here’s a post on what we managed to squeeze in. Bear in mind we went as a family on a reasonable budget so you won’t find tales of cool bars or expensive restaurants here. We had fun though. Travel: We flew [...]
November 13, 2009
Date: 18 August 2009 To: Mohammed.Idrees@birmingham.gov.uk, Ansar.Ali.Khan@birmingham.gov.uk, Tariq.Khan@birmingham.gov.uk From: Dave Harte Subject: demolition/regeneration of houses on Naseby road, Alum Rock Dear all, I am a former resident of Hazelbeach Road in Ward End (B8 3HL) and am writing on behalf of my mother, still a resident there, about our increasing concern regarding the condition of [...]
October 29, 2009
I know this is odd but my mother and I share an unspoken bond over a newspaper. Well, unspoken till now I guess. But in all the talk of hyperlocal news on the web and the local paper here in Birmingham going from daily to weekly I thought I’d explain why the Connacht Tribune is [...]
July 29, 2009
You’d have thought that Newquay was nothing more than a playground for well-off 14 year old drunken teens causing havoc in what otherwise is a peaceful seaside town. That isn’t quite the reality of course; for a start this isn’t a peaceful seaside town. It’s a noisy vibrant place with a few too many stag [...]
July 8, 2009
I’ll keep this brief but last year for my 40th birthday present I got a voucher to fly in an old aircraft from the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. For one reason or another it took a year to redeem the voucher so on my 41st birthday I managed to do the flight. The plane [...]
March 27, 2009
For too long now the houses in the street next to where my Mom lives (in Alum Rock, East Birmingham) have been boarded up ready for demolition. Some have gone but others remain. In fact they’ve remained that way for several years now. I don’t actually know what the plans for them are but I [...]
November 27, 2008
Well today was a bit of a frenzy. The Act on CO2 People Power campaign was launched and I found myself being wheeled in front of the media for most of the day. It started gently with an interview down the phone with Radio WM’s Phil Upton. He even left a comment on my Facebook [...]
August 30, 2008
A week in a dull, foggy and sometimes drizzly north Devon has left me invigorated on the running front. We had a four day break in a caravan near Woolacombe Bay which was lovely bar the weather (total sunshine in four days: about 45 minutes). It was great for running in however and I managed three [...]