Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

Yes, Mr Simon Gray is the lucky winner of the coveted Mars Bar. He found my sheep and it is now restored to its rightful place. I’m not going to reveal the location just yet: I need to sit down and blog it properly, so in the meantime people may as well have the chance [...]

My lost sheep is trapped in a yellow box on someone else’s blog, and may have been spotted. Apparently the location of this sighting has nothing to do with the British Broadcasting Corporation. I’ve also heard a rumour that it may be south of Bristol. Both reports are unconfirmed though.

Help! My twitter avatar has gone missing. Somewhere there is a lost sheep. I belive it’s trapped in yellow box, like this: If you can find where it is on the web and post the url in a comment on this post, you will restore the sheep to its rightful place on Twitter. And win [...]

Some time ago it occured to me that the stalls in Birmingham’s outdoor market resembled table-tennis tables, and what a waste it was that they were unused a lot of the time. I made the mistake of thinking this out loud in front of Nikki Pugh, who has a habit of making things come true: [...]

I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that I have any skills of note, and keep meaning to force myself to try and audit them just to check. So here I’ve spelled out what I do in my day job, and some of the challenges I’ve faced. Although I’m still not sure I know any [...]

I’ve been trying out ConnectTweet, a tool that helps make it easier to tell whose voice is being used in a corporate Twitter stream. ConnectTweet is currently not even in beta testing, so it could change considerably before it’s released. In fact, one purpose of this post is to provide feedback. Why ConnectTweet? A problem [...]

This is just to apologise for being very slack the last few weeks. I’ve been busy, but for some reason also feeling unable to write blog posts. I’ve even sat down with some in mind, but haven’t managed to commit fingers to keyboard. Anyway, I’m about to write one; I just wanted first to acknowledge [...]

A warm earthy blusher works well doubled as a subtle eye shadow.

Run out of clothes pegs? Try paper clips instead.

A few weeks ago Nikki Pugh and I were walking through the empty market stalls in Birmingham, and were struck by how much they resembled table-tennis tables. What a waste, we thought. Yesterday we put that right. Nikki and Charlie, who facilitate the BARG events, organised a bunch of us to meet at the vegetable market [...]