Heritage Open Days runs over the next few days. Basically lots of buildings which don't normally open open, and lots of buildings which are normally open put on extra events.

In Birmingham, among others, you could with a bit of planning and a following wind visit the cathedral, the Catholic cathedral, Birmingham Central Mosque, a Quaker meeting house, Singers Hill Synagogue, two different Buddhist centres, and the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Handsworth. You'll need to cover your head and pop your shoes off that last one, but they will feed you. You can collect the set by nipping out to visit a Hindu temple in Wolverhampton.

If you're more conspiracy minded, there are at least three Masonic Temples opening (that they tell you about). Pete's favourite Curzon Street Station is open (see the cat), but I suspect he'll be off to the Newman Brother's Coffin Fittings Factory.

Here's the whole list of heritagey goings-on in Birmingham, the West Midlands and, indeed, the nation.

Me? I have "a prior" and will be bobbing back and forth to PyConUK. No, it isn't about snakes.