Birmingham photo walk

A long-planned meet-up with an old friend, for lunch and a wander around the canal paths in the middle of Birmingham. Jon lives near Oxford, so Birmingham works out well for us both as a meeting place.
We chewed the fat for a while, reflecting on the general crumbling of public services, the obscenity of current water industry shareholder dividends/bonuses, and various other issues. More cheerfully, we went for a walk around Gas St Basin with our cameras.
Then I set off for home, on a packed and delayed train. There was a carriage missing, so there were stressed-out people hunting for seats, to the accompaniment of doleful apologies playing over the train speakers.