Birmingham's Aylesbury

The sky is blue, the day is fine
I am off on a little jolly to North Wales to continue my Msc course in Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies. But on the way time for a quick stop off in Birmingham, just a small detour from the motorway, down a couple of roads and the arc of goodness that is Aylesbury Crescent. It was bin day when I visited and there were lots of compost bags outside people’s houses. I am yet to understand this logic. Fair enough some people do not have gardens, so do a good job to share their waste garden material with others.



However if you do have a garden, then allow the stuff to compost over the year. Surely you would be using more energy by having a lorry come round and pick it up and then have machinery move it at the tip. Then more machinery to process it to distribute it. Just burn it, if it is a voracious weed, or compost it in your garden and keep things simple.
The school on Aylesbury Crescent looked a fun place with lots of colour and grafitti, a real community place. I hope it gets used a lot for other stuff. There seemed to be a youth building at one end. A great idea as young people often need places just to be together, rather than things to do and spend money.
CAT this time was quite fun with a group project trying to look at the best way to build up a housing block on a Greenfield site. The week went well, still haven’t written my essay, but oh well, consider this as part of my procrastination time.