Birmingham

I went to Birmingham on Friday evening as I was speaking at the Deaf Parenting UK conference on Saturday morning. The conference its self was very interesting and definitely worthwhile me attending and speaking at. It did make me wonder if their are any organisations run by visually impaired people about being a parent but from doing a quick google search there don't seem to be any, other than RNIB general stuff and local authority sensory service teams. Yet there seem to be a number of similar issues experienced by deaf parents affecting visually impaired parents too. Issues like lack of accessible services and information and a fear of social services stepping in at any moment.

Birmingham its self was as friendly and welcoming as ever - apart from the taxi drivers who seemed to be very grumpy. Now, Spurs supporting north London cabbies have every right to be grumpy at the moment but everything seemed rosy in Brum apart from the taxi drivers so I am not sure what their problem was the credit crunch maybe? I was driven - by a morose cabbie past the Radisson tower in the photo above. The picture (grabbed off the internet not my handy work) must have been taken on Holloway Circus where the pagoda is situated. Anyway the tower looks pretty cool when you drive past it.