Make new friends in Birmingham

Monotony is tedious, everyone knows that. So what do you do if you're fed up of the same people, doing the same things, at the same places? How about spending some time with geeky poets, beefy rugby players or raucous roller skaters?

Although our region's famed for its football, there's more to Brum than poncing about like a bunch of numpties, clutching shins and ankles in agony at the slightest tap.

Why not act like a man (this includes you, ladies), and join one of the city's rugby clubs. Moseley Rugby Club, the oldest one in the area, (Billesley Common, Yardley Wood Road, B13 0PT, 0121 443 3631) has 1st, 2nd, Colts, Minis & Juniors and Women's teams and welcomes players of all abilities.

It's surprisingly easy to slip quietly into the swing of a full contact bash-fest sport. A few knocks later and you'll have 11 new best friends and so much adrenaline pumping through your veins you'll think nothing of taking your 15st opponent down like the sack of stinking excrement that they are. And then after the match you'll buy them a pint and swap mobile numbers.

Visit www.moseleyrugby.co.uk for training sessions.

Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames, the city's only women's roller derby sports team are leading the way in bringing the US-famed sport to UK shores. Now we know what you're thinking, 'What's the big deal about a bunch of women flapping around on roller skates?'

We thought the same thing until we did our research. Forget cheesy roller discos where you spend hours clinging onto the sides while cocky four year olds fly past you leaving a trail of rubber behind, this is the real deal. The only cocky skaters flying past you on this track will be the other team barging their way through your solid formation of 'blockers'.

It's all about the pivots, blockers and jammers in roller derby, and of course co-ordinated costumes and alter-egos. Featured in the BBDD team are such characters as Micki Moto, Racey Macy, and Magic Minx. Let's hope they welcome Itchy Bitchy into the mix with open arms then.

There's open practice sessions each Saturday, at Stockland Green Sports Centre, (Slade Road, Erdington, Birmingham, B23 7JH) between 10am-12pm. For more information call 07913 817230 or visit www.blitzdames.com.

If you fancy yourself a bit of a wordsmith and can't stop pop-pop-popping out top class poems, stories and songs, there might be a place for you in West Midlands-based publishing collective, Wrote Under Publishing. Each third Sunday of the month Digbeth's Adam & Eve (203 Bradford Street, B12 0JD, 0121 693 1500) plays host to the groups' ever-so-slightly geeky, but strange and wonderful creative world The Sunday Xpress, where magic drum sticks and Bull Ring bees are rife.

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