Park Life

Park Life

Moseley Park users were this week warned to find alternative routes  around the lake due to lengthy delays caused by fallen trees. It seems that aberrant weather conditions have caused a number of trees to lose branches rendering sections of the park completely...

Dixon of Dock Doom

Dixon of Dock Doom

The fragile economic recovery of Moseley Village was in doubt this week with the realisation that everyone's favourite estate agents, Dixons, was shut for "refurbishment". This shock news clearly came as a surprise to aspirant house buyers, one told us:-   "It's...

Bohemian Like Who?

Bohemian Like Who?

Moseley was rocked over the weekend as Birmingham was forced to initiate its emergency resilience plan in order to prevent a wave of pretension drowning both Kings Heath and Balsall Heath. In a perfect storm of up its own arsedness we've seen the opening of Bohemian...

Moseley: A History of Words (Pt 2)

Due to the worrying lack of anything particularly eventful happening in the last week we decided to revisit Mr Allen from Allen's Chicken and Chips for another insight into the history of Moseley. When people visit Moseley the very first thing that they notice is the...

Red Menace

Red Menace

When Moseley returned two Labour Councillors, a legitimate concern of many right thinking people was that this would herald a return to Soviet era price controls. Over the last two years these concerns were largely dismissed as McCarthyite hysteria. Well news has...

I’ll Have a Consonant

I’ll Have a Consonant

As we walk the streets of our village many people don't give a thought to Moseley Wines, unless of course you'd like a refreshing can of strong lager. In a number of forms it's been providing a much needed service to the people of Moseley for years. In a sense it is a...

Bridge Over the River Rea

Bridge Over the River Rea

The development of the new bridge over the River Rea has been universally recognised as a triumph of civil engineering, but we can now exclusively reveal that it has a  much darker purpose. The twin aims of building the bridge were to guarantee that we had the...

Road to Nowhere

Road to Nowhere

Yesterday angry residents called on Moseley Traffic Chiefs to explain the surreal decision to redirect traffic from the Alcester Road through a local pet shop. The strange action occurred after the main road was blocked by a road traffic accident.   In a penitent...

Moseley: A History of Words

Moseley: A History of Words

Like all of us, you have a fascination with the olden days don't you? You want to know what Moseley was like was before you were born, you want to hear about when it was "better". So do we, so we decided to ask the only person that truly remembers how we used to live,...