Never mind me what are you all up to?

Me? Working full-time again - on my commute I cocoon myself in a cave of music and dance on train platforms. Getting in my latest set of Thirst revisions in (yeehaa!) by the skin of my teeth, fueled by cake (porny picture thereof below) and Day Nurse and True Grit (yes, true grit my friends). Seeing some beautiful films like In the House (gorgeous cast and some fine acting) and The Late Quartet (where Philip Seymore-Hoffman broke my wee heart and had me weeping into my chocolate covered popcorn). Thinking about my next project (it might involve me travelling nomad style around Britain’s council estates). Meeting and chattering with the Green Carnation judges (lovely, just fucking lovely, the lot of em) and plowing(ish) through the books (there will be over 50, I am braced). Seeing art like the Bernadette Corporation at the ICA (as BC itself would say both dope and, like, nothing) and Black Eyes and Lemonade at The Whitechapel (it is glorious and witty and nostaligic). And writing a near-unreadable parenthesis laden paragraphs like this. 

I am also doing some stuff in April. Good, exciting STUFF: 

First up I’m at the Aye Write Festival in Glasgae appearing with the lovely Karen Campbell at 6pm on the 16th April 

Later in the month Simon Savidge will be putting me through my paces with not one but two panels at Liverpool Literary Festival. The first on Council Estate of the Mind: Literature and Class (29th April, 6.30pm – 7.30pm , Kuumba Imani, Millennium Centre Cafe, 4 Princes Road, Liverpool, L8 1TH with James Smythe and Claire McGowan) AND THEN on a debuts panel with Beatrice Hitchman, Sarah Butler, Gavin Extence and John Ironmonger (30th April, 6.30pm – 7.30pm , The Attic, 33-35 Parr Street, Liverpool L1 4JN) More details to be had on Simon’s website

Now? Now I’m going to put on old man pyjamas, eat some Marmite and toast and watch some Masterchef on my creaky little laptop.

Anyway, never mind me, what have you lot been up to?