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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
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Consultation is dead, big plans are deader
So today the good people of Birmingham learned two thing. Firstly, we’re getting a shiny new train station next to the venerable Moor St and incorporating (in name at least) the geriatric Curzon St to serve the high speed rail … Continue reading
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Atsuhiro Ito
It’s a measure of how far things have come that I can go to a warehouse to watch a Japanese man make loud yet beautiful noises with a striplight and it be a fairly normal night out for me. That’s … Continue reading
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Where is this horse?
I found this upside down horse in central Birmingham. If you can find it yourself, let me know and you’ll, um, not win anything.
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BBC cuts, my 2p
I don’t want to add too much to the bluster around Mark Thompson’s decision that in order for the BBC to be less competitive with commercial broadcasters and content producers it has to cut some of it’s low budget specialist … Continue reading
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I opened a shop on Thursday
I’m running it half-with and half-for Chris Unitt. It’s a spin off of Created in Birmingham, that blog what I started back in the day which Chris now owns and runs. It’s in the Bull Ring, Europe’s largest shopping centre … Continue reading
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The best tool in the kit
I was in a meeting and a conversation happened along these lines: Blogger: It’d be really useful if we would embed your content. News person: Ah, we can’t make that sharable due to rights reasons and stuff. Me: It’s okay, … Continue reading
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Cross City Walks
I was reading an article by Will Self and thinking it was a bit psychogeographically which reminded me that Self had this thing he did when he flew into a city of walking from the airport to his final destination … Continue reading
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Funky Goops and Thingama Furbies
Nikki brought her circuit bent Funky Furby over to our house the other night which gave us a chance to bring it into contact with my pair of Thingamagoops. Amongst other things Nikki has put lights on the ears connected … Continue reading
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Where I’m blogging these days
As ever my online activites are rather distributed but a pattern has emerged of late which I think will remain stable for the forseable. So if you want to read and look at things by myself here’s where to read … Continue reading
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Jo the cat
My good friend Jo was pondering switching her Twitter avatar from the picture of a cat she’s been using for years to one that actually looks like her. To simplify things I suggested she do both and threw this together … Continue reading
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Introducing 8bit Pete
8bit Pete has been around for a few months now but tonight he actually got paid a token £10 for playing 8bit music and related nonsense for 90 minutes in the Hare and Hounds to actual people who didn’t all … Continue reading
A return to retail
As you might have heard, Created in Birmingham is opening a shop in the Bullring. This is, of course, mildly insane. But only mildly. It’s one of those pop-up shops which take an empty unit for free for a short … Continue reading
Bus Darts
This one sort of came from nowhere with some help from Rob and, naturally, Jon. It’s a game played on busses in a city about the size of Birmingham. The aim of the game is to score exactly 501 points. … Continue reading
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Literal Birmingham Souvenirs
Today, in the pub, Mr Jon Bounds informed the table that he’d been thinking of ordering sticks of rock candy with “Alum Rock” running through them but hadn’t because he’d need to order a thousand and didn’t really want a … Continue reading
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Introducing Spike the photographer
Sister Lucy sent through a couple of photos my 5 year old nephew Spike took over Christmas. He wasn’t being supervised when he took these – just wandered off with the camera – and they haven’t been cropped or processed … Continue reading
Our Bleepy Angel
Should have posted this a while back really but only took a photo on the day everything came down. When we decorated the living room through the fug of mutual flu I was inspired to place Mr Thingamagoop atop the … Continue reading
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Quality of Light
I had a phone call from young Danny this evening advising me that in the park the light on the snow was quite lovely indeed, so when Fiona got back we popped out with our tripods. The thing is, the … Continue reading
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Nice Cuppa Tea
Met up with Nick and Michael in the Fighting Cocks today. I seem to only ever drink tea in there. Lots of tea.
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New TTV Website
This Christmas has mostly been spent in bed or on the sofa, thanks to Fiona and I coming down with a dose of flu. But while annoying and uncomfortable it did mean I achieved my aim of doing as little … Continue reading
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