Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Pain
After the last blog I walked down to Bradford to pay the Election wage in and pay off the strimmer part of the credit card debt (got the cheque for that earlier in the week).
When I got home I felt, and feel, ill. It is not yet 18.00, I have been in bed for 2 hours, am cooking rice, bacon and peppers; will have a cup of coffee and asprins, and go back to bed.
I do not think this is my usual pre show illness, for a start I am under-stressed about it, if anything.If it is not flu, and my voice is not knacked, I will do Monday, but trying to sell tickets in Skipton before looks less certain.
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Rain
Good day yesterday, despite very poor tickets sales for the next Kipling show. Today it is not yet noon, the rain has started, I have given up in the idea of going to Skipton, and it feels grim.
I got a call yesterday afternoon from Tina of BCB asking me if I wanted to come in to do a live interview at 3.00. I sign on at 2.30 but sometimes don't get seen until nearly 3.00, but I went in early and told them I had an interview. I was seen very quickly, and gave the lass signing me career advice about getting her poetry published.
It was a good interview I am also in this week's Craven Herald and there was a small feature in Wednesday's Telegraph & Argus. All to the good, but not one sale to a strange, as far as I know. I called Tamar to talk about the November show, and to talk through the sense in doing the Kipling. Because I have to order each curry in advance I should not, In theory, be able to sell tickets on the door, so with no strangers having tickets there is nothing to stop me canceling, even with the press coverage. The thing is though it does not work like that, and I do not have anything to lose by doing it.
I got a cheque for the Election work. I though I would get £120, I got £177! I also got a txt from the lovely Kate telling me the payment for the On Track work isIS going to come. I have just seen the on-line edition though and someone else's name has been put to my interview!
I have now waited 4 weeks for a dole payment and cannot get through to the enquiry number (they could provide no information about the delay when I signed on). The delay in what probably caused the stopping of Council Tax Benefit.
The agency acting for Social Services finally assessed my parents house on Wednesday. I wanted to be there but got just an hours notice of the visit. Ma was not ill so the visit was fair, despite my dad acting like a six year old. They will get a bath lift and rails for the back door steps, but not the ramp for the front, but I can do most of that myself, and will. The hardest part will be dad.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
City Heroes
Sat down with Dave Pendleton and this laptop in the City Vaults to write the first draft of City Heroes (The search for Robert Torrance), Bradford Cathedral, 11th November, 2009. Dave has all the stories and could easily talk for 2 hours, and it would be a good talk. I have now learnt enough of the discipline of show writing to give dramatic form to the stories. This will be a powerful drama and a major event.
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