Loads of news, loads to come... Just.... loads....

Date: 29 July 2008 21:23:45

Hey all,

So where we at?

Past two weeks have been monstrously busy. The youth bands did two gigs back to back following on from the drama groups doing some amazing stuff at Guilfest. Made some top friends there and we hope that next year will be even better for us. We'll see.

The biggest gig we've done was a three hour 8 act singathon at Guildford's Boileroom. It's a fantastic venue and, for a start, they do great noodles. But also they were really great with the bands (despite some occasional provocation from teens who were occasionally a little too excited) and it was a fantata evening. Very tiring though, at times it felt like a one person organisational thing because it was a one person organisational thing :( I've really got to work out how to delegate the gigs out to someone else... But was loads of fun. Just gearing up to two solid weeks of summer sessions and then the kids playing another festival (this time the Euphonic gig) with two of our bands playing, woot.

After that? Been finishing up a teaching resource for Spring Harvest based on the Exile Road characters ((do you need some teaching materials for a Summer school or sunday group he said in a google friendly series of keywords? Then give the Did You Know pack a look see)). That's been a fun one to work on also.

After that? Back to college for teaching and teacher training back to back. Having a little bit of a hassle working out the working hours (they seem to want me to work 6 hours split over three days and a fourth for the training itself which is taking the michael a little bit) and then onto books 6 and 7 released back to back in October. Book 7 is Sylver 3, which comes out at the end of October (I think). And that just leaves one project which is coming out at the beginning of October which I can't talk about just yet but should be interesting to see how people take to it.

Added some DYK artwork here and will add some more stuff soonish. Hope you enjoy.