Week Commencing 18th April 2011

Another gloomy, cool Monday I see but it’s good after

It got stupidly hot in my back garden yesterday afternoon

(40 odd degrees which is mad) which probably explains

Why too I came back from Dukingfield rather warm.

Otherwise, ‘Unique, Driven and Determined’ as you may have

seen happened this Saturday just gone and was rather a busy

night which sadly trickled off towards the end of the night

but still resulted in us raising a fair bit of money with more

money to come in which should give us a nice amount of

money to spread among the three charities.

Hopefully in another few weeks, we should be able to

reveal the final figure but speaking from a personal angle,

I am pleased with what we raised.

This week is going to be a busy one I think certainly,

as tonight I have to pop over to Dukingfield with some

additional money that has come in (We are still expecting

donations for it – cheques can be addressed to unique,

driven and determined or send to paypal viva me).

Tuesday will be band rehearsals where I am hoping to

Get chance to hear a possible new keyboardist in action.

Wednesday as it stands, I should be having tea at my

friend Olga’s and then Thursday I will be chairing ‘Poetica’

a excellent writing discussion group in the centre of Manchester

City Library and then I am going to head over to Freed Up Poets @
the Green Room, Manchester.

Anybody who has heard the sad news about funding getting

withdrawn to Manchester’s ‘The Green Room’ may well

want to attend this Freed Up and the last one at the Green Room

in May, just to show that people still support ‘The Green Room’

as it’s been a hotbed of the best alternative theatre for over 25

years for me in Manchester and to get it’s funding withdrawn

totally is very, very sad news and is a big show of the times

when things like ‘Manchester International Festival’s funding

gets trebled.

Lastly, then when it is bank holiday week-end I am hoping to

finally get chance to totally chill and crack on with my second

book (I sorted out a folder last night and discovered I had tons

of incomplete poems or draft poems which are possibles

for the book). Either way, a launch for September or October

is looking very, very possible this year.