Right everybody, deep breath as there is a lot of meaning to talk over in the heraldic emblem! In many ways this emblem is the deepest expression of Black Country identity because it says so much! Read the rest of this entry »

We thought we would start a feature telling you some facts about Bostin Group, as apparently not a lot of people know these facts, so we wanted to publish them on here for you to share with all your friends and family. Read the rest of this entry »

You may recall the first diary entry from our Wolverhampton Wallaby – A Brave New World.

Well, here is the second installment for your enjoyment! Read the rest of this entry »

25.05 Wolves 53 – 39 Belle Vue

Wolves fought hard tonight to defeat a stenthened Belle Vue team, Sqora scored 8+1.

A tough start for the PARRYS International Wolves and in particular Adam and Tai, they usually get a heat advantage in heat 3 but it was the Bell Vue pair of Ulrich Ostergaard and Patrick Hougaard who secured a 5-1 heat advantage, the Wolves finally got going and some good racing followed, the Wolves secured 5 consecutive heat advantages. Adam finished the evening with 2 heat wins. For Wolves the usual top two of Peter Karlsson and Fredrik Lindgren but they also had solid support from the rest of the team. For the Aces only Krzysztof Kasprzak, Morten Risager and Patrick Hougaard put up any resistance.

Wolves – 53
1. Peter Karlsson – 3-3-3-1′-2′ = 12+2
2. Nicolai Klindt – 0-1-3-2′ = 6+1
3. Tai Woffinden – 0-2-2′-3 = 7+1
4. Adam Skornicki – 1-1′-3-3 = 8+1
5. Fredrik Lindgren – 3-3-3-2-3 =14
6. Hynek Stichauer – 1′-1-0-0 = 2+1
7. Ty Proctor – 2-1-1-0 = 4

Belle Vue – 39
1. Krzysztof Kasprzak – 1′-3-4-3-0 = 11+1
2. Billy Forsberg R/R
3. Ulrich Ostergaard – 2′-FX-1-2-1 = 6+1
4. James Wright – X-0 = 0 WITHDREW Injured
5. Charlie Gjedde – 0-F-1-0 = 1
6. Morten Risager – 2-3-2-2-0-1′-2 = 12+1
7. Patrick Hougaard – F-3-2-2-0-1′-1′ = 9+2

Heat by heat:
Heat 01: Karlsson, Risager, Kasprzak, Klindt. 3-3
Heat 02: Risager, Proctor, Stichauer, Hougaard (Fell). (3-3)…6-6
Heat 03: Hougaard, Ostergaard, Skornicki, Woffinden. (1-5)…7-11
Heat 04: Lindgren, Hougaard, Proctor, Gjedde. (4-2)…11-13
Heat 05: Kasprzak, Woffinden, Skornicki, Wright. (3-3)…14-16
Heat 06: Karlsson, Risager, Klindt, Gjedde (Fell). (4-2)…18-18
Heat 07 Lindgren, Hougaard, Stichauer. (4-2)…22-20
Heat 08: Klindt, Risager, Proctor, Hougaard. (4-2)…26-22
Heat 09: Skornicki, Woffinden, Gjedde, Risager. (5-1)…31-23
Heat 10: Karlsson, Klindt, Ostergaard. (5-1)…35-24
Heat 11: Lindgren, Kasprzak, Hougaard, Stichauer. (3-5)…39-29
Heat 12: Woffinden, Ostergaard, Risager, Proctor. (3-3)…42-32
Heat 13: Kasprzak, Lindgren, Karlsson, Gjedde. (3-3)…45-35
Heat 14: Skornicki, Risager, Hougaard, Stichauer. (3-3)…48-38
Heat 15: Lindgren, Karlsson, Ostergaard, Kasprzak. (5-1)…53-39

For those of you who have been with us for the past few years may remember some of the pictures from Bostin around the world has already had some from China.

The first Bostin in China was from Mat Danks and then followed from Mark Andrews in Hong Kong and Paul Collins in one of the Chinese provinces.

Mat Danks, Great Wall of China

Bostin Hong Kong

Bostin China Provinces

It always makes us smile when we see so many Bostin people in their Bostin t-shirts from either where they work or on holiday, but none more so when we got the following pictures last week from Shanghai.

Actually we didn’t smile, we laughed out loud when we got the following pictures from Rich Crow with a view of Nanpu Bridge in Shanghai to include their Bostin car sticker!

Bostin - Nanpu Bridge in Shanghai

Bostin in Shanghai

Rich says: I did say I was on my travels and here is my first effort at spreading the word globally. This was taken as we drove over the Nanpu Bridge in Shanghai, as you can see we already have our car sticker proudly displayed in the back of the company Minibus.

Well done Rich on helping spread the Bostin word!

If you would like one of our car stickers, simply fill in your details below and we’ll get in touch with you!

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For those of you that enjoyed our album, NOW that’s what i call Bostin! you might like this observation from one of our Bostin readers.

Don’t know if this is just a coincidence but….

2007 – Chinese year of the Chicken – Bird Flu Pandemic devastates parts of Asia

2008 – Chinese year of the Horse – Equine Influenza decimates Australian racing

2009 – Chinese year of the Pig – Swine Flu Pandemic kills hundreds of pigs around the globe.

Has any one else noticed this???!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It gets worse……..

next year……

2010 – Chinese year of the Cock – what could possibly go wrong?

And if thats not bad enough, is this a swine flu remedy?

Swine Flu remedy?

As we are now enetering the final few days of voting, it’s all getting very exciting with many votes already being cast.

Have you made your vote yet?

You can do it here now, for the best of The Black Country >>> VOTE HERE

Below are some photos of some of the finalists all looking very stylish in their exclusive Bostin Awards t-shirts as found here.

Bostin Awards finalist

Bostin Awards finalist

Bostin Awards finalist

Bostin Awards finalist

Phillip Tibbets is back with more Black Country Flag designs with this weeks, Flags for the Towns 5

Right this week a breather before we launch into exploring the heraldic emblem more thoroughly! Read the rest of this entry »

We love music!

The West Midlands is a vibrant hub of music and many other creative industries.

Some of our areas are being threatened, no more so, than in Digbeth and Moseley.

There have been a number of issues lately where venues key to the Birmingham music scene have been faced with difficulties amounting to eventual closure due to complaints of a very small minority of people and alleged behaviour by the Council and Property Developers which leaves much to be desired.

In response, Project X have produced this short film to highlight some of the issues and hopefully stir up some action:

With the work that i do with Bostin Group, i often come across some real local heroes. Last year after completing The Peru Inca trail trek, i interviewed a number of local people for BBC radio with the theme Ordinary people doing the extraordinary Read the rest of this entry »