Tuesday, I arrive at The South Bank at 11.30am and spend an hour or so replying to emails from members of the public who want “career advice”. I made the offer in the previous Literature Brochure.  But I don’t offer advice via email so I must meet all enquiries with the offer of a face to face meeting.   I do face to face.   The advice meetings are scheduled for December  10th and 11th. 

Coincidentally,  tomorrow is the deadline for input into the next  literature brochure for January to March 2007.   All the events which I have been trying to organise are as yet unconfirmed and so will probably not go into the brochure. The brochure deadline seems to appear out of nowhere. In fact it does. I get the call from the literature department so late in the day that it is near impossible to catch the deadline and no assistance.  I’m rolling with it and suspect that I am missing something here.  I am meeting the literature officer on friday to ask how we can work more effectively together. As presently it is unsatisfactory in terms of communication. 

The event 24 hour party people in terms of communication  particularly revealing. Production asked  The Literature Department for photographs  of the night – as a means of a record of an event at The Spirit Level - the newest venue at the South Bank. It didn’t happen.  No pictures were taken.

At 1.30pm  I spend thirty minutes with the new Learning and Participation worker the dynamic Sarah Sansom whom I know from Manchester and who lives round the corner from me in East London. That’s very cool.

At 3pm I give a workshop in The Blue Room for Mary Kings Pulse Group. I am assisting them in lyric writing through poetry. What a wonderful gorgeous group of individuals. I spend two hours with them. They write and are alight. Tomorrow they will be working with Fraiser Trainer the musician whom I met yesterday.

I think the workshop was a real success  because its aim was achieved – to produce material which can be used as fodder for song writing, not to achieve the finish poem.  It was tricky for me – to not take the normal workshop route – one that I thoroughly enjoy. All this using The Photograph as example.  Finish at five oclock and leg it through London to catch a train. Tomorrow unconnected to the south bank I will be giving a one hour talk to all the Judges and many solicitors of Cumbria. I am off to Kendal.  In five hours I will be in the heart of The Lake District.