Busy couple of weeks.  I'm going over to the newly rebranded Birmingham City University (formerly UCE Birmingham) tomorrow to give a talk about the project and one or two other bits 'n pieces.  An opportunity to spread the word a bit, especially among those who are more actively connected in to planning practice than ivory tower geographers.

We had an interesting meeting last week with Pete James from Birmingham Central Library.  He's library's Head of Photographs and a friend of Dan Burwood who we've hooked up with for potential collaboration.  Hopefully we'll be able to get a joint project going linking some of Dan's ideas for a project relating to community portraits along with some of the historical material that Pete can give us access to, combining these with the stories we're hoping to get from our interviewees.

On that subject, Jane's put together our project flier which we've been distributing, partly thanks to the Eastside Community Group and partly with myself and James having a quiet afternoon wandering around local pubs and leaving fliers on the bar.  It's a hard life sometimes.  Jane is hoping to hook up with a guy from the St Basil's Centre, a big homeless charity which is based out of a former church on Heath Mill Lane, deep within our study area.  So things are moving along.  Of course then comes the difficult task of deciding quite how the recording should be transcribed with all kinds of techie decisions about how to link the transcript to the GPS tracks.  Which, naturally, I'm immensely looking forward to, given my status as resident geek.