Tuesday, 6th May 2025

I need to blog more.  I need to write more, but I also need to release more and this is the best place I have for doing that.  I caught myself giving someone feedback on their work which was really an expression of my frustration with not feeling productive myself.  It's not enough to apologise to that person, I need to change my behaviour too – and that just means typing more often into a text box.

I've got a lot of London this week.  I went to Hard Art today, I'm going to a thing in Hackney tomorrow evening and staying over because I'm opening space for a client on Thursday morning.  I'm getting used now to remembering that I don't live there.  I can't just get a bus home from the West End.  In an ideal world I'd have a club where we could stay over when needed, but I don't think I'm there yet.  I like being able to get out of town at the end of the day and walk up the hill from the station.

I've started walking early in the morning instead of running.  It's better for my hips and knees, but also easier to do every day.  A forty minute stroll around the town gets me a solid 5,000 steps before breakfast.

At Hard Art we worked with Katy Rubin on Legislative Theatre.  As someone who started out as an actor, worked in public service for ten years trying to make things better for citizens and now makes things with people, for people, out of people, it was a lovely way to pull everything together.  There was a lot to take in, but we sprinted through it with just enough depth to get how powerful a process it can be.  

There I feel better about today now, having written about it just a little bit.