Oh look, Wham and Mariah are climbing up the charts yet again which must mean Christmas is around the corner (although the whole shebang definitely seems to start earlier with every passing year). Before I succumb to the perils of festive shopping, let's take a moment to remind ourselves that it is still only November, and that there has been photostream progress of the non-seasonal variety...
Putting any Grinch-like tendencies aside, let's begin with WME Wolverhampton which happily bounces back to top billing after being quieter than usual in October. Much of its recent prowess stems via artistic additions from the Mander Centre, combining a couple of murals (one for the Arena Theatre, the other a Covid key worker tribute) with various assorted shapes and patterns. Merry Hill pumpkins and Wychbury Road blossoms mean the Mander malls don't completely dominate proceedings.
Also riding high this month has been WME Dudley, powered by a generous sprinkling of new Lye materials. In amongst the expected scatter of street signs, I note extracts from the Shovel Inn (a classic boozer established in 1836 or so the evidence says) along with Lye Cross 1960s precinct lettering plus a Green Lane foxy flourish. Bache Brothers Cycles has been going a good few years in its own right, as has C. Beech & Sons on the Waterside Trading Estate down in Netherton. Dudley did not disappoint...
... and neither does our good friend WME Staffordshire which has its own vulpine visitor care of the Lower Penn street art on the South Staffordshire Railway Walk (although perhaps the James Bond/Daniel Craig depiction is more your thing). Green Belt protestations give way to more Lichfield largesse in the form of Walkabout, Cappers Lane and the Duke of Wellington, the latter promoting itself as a purveyor of fine ales - I wholeheartedly concur!
Elsewhere, any wider updates have had to battle hard for my attention but there have been splutterings from the likes of WME Telford & Wrekin (a Station Road sign in Madeley), WME Worcestershire (a suitably car-themed piece of Wye Valley pub promotion from the Morgan in Great Malvern) and WME Warwickshire (a dusky reference to Lillington Youth Centre). Last and certainly not least comes WME Birmingham and its solitary sharing of the Bulls Head at Moseley, and now I'd best crack on with some proper Christmas preparations - wish me luck everybody and see you in December...
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