Thursday, 5 February 2009

Luddite Initiates Regional Blog

Incredible. The whole world appear to be blogging these days and although it bemuses me slightly as to where blog readers find the time to absorb such copious detail of life's grievances and pleasures I thought it might be fun to sketch a very informal picture of what I get up to here in the East Midlands on behalf of the Making Music establishment.

You may or may not know that I'm employed by Making Music for 3 days each week to carry out work that develops Making Music and the life of it's members in the East Midlands. I therefore cover the five counties: Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. Quite a broad aread and as diverse as it is extensive.

I often wonder how 3 days are consumed so I'll attempt to give you a clue.

Today I'm dealing with bookings for our upcoming St.Valentines Day singing extravaganza. Nigel Perrin is coming all the way from the South West to deliver a one-day singing event aimed at choral singers.

I'm also planning my 2009 visiting strategy - the aim is to get out and about and meet more members in the region. So watch out! I may be popping up on your doorstep soon.

I've also been ordering some marketing and promotional goods this afternoon so I'm overfed with ideas about pretty post-its, eco-pencils and organic drawstring bags. I settled for some T-shirts and wooden pencils.

Just about to finalise some of our project plans for the coming year and then I might dash out in the snow for a celebratory pint.

Becky x