Forget Kevin Bacon, people just keep cropping up. This week I was chatting to an art directing freelancer I used to work with. She was telling me how her writer is pregnant, and we caught up on running swimming and other stuff. She knows Simon really well, and Gemma – both Northern Planning summit regulars.…

Piers from PSFK has been kind enough to ask me to come their London conference on 1st June. If you can make it would be well worth your while – just look at the speakers below. If you can’t I’ll be posting about it anyway. In any case, their site is always well worth a…

I’ve been accused of looking like a poor man’s Bruce Willis in this picture. They’re wrong aren’t they? Say they are. Please.

Firstly, please help the Dead Artist and endevour to raise the value of the The Mountain Rescue Painting by linking to him. Secondly, it’s a bit busy Up North, but there will be more recipes and planning basics shortly. By the way, I came accross this in the Guardian – unconventional household tips. Might come…

  Everyone I need your help. I’m helping out on a charity do for ChildLine this Autumn – it’s for kids, it matters – and part of of that will be an auction. By ghostly chance, The Dead Artist seems to have started some rather good paintings in a past life. Since the theme of…

Just to confirm, it’s in Arts Cafe in Leeds, this Thursday 7.30pm. That isn’t to say we won’t move on to somewhere else, but it seems to be down to me and I’m too lazy to think of anywhere else. Hope to see you there. I’ll be loitering around WH Smiths in Leeds train station…

The last Northern Planning get together in Manchester was so good we needed an extra month to recover. So after the April blip we’re re-entering the fray this Thursday. We know it’s in Leeds, we know we’re meeting at 7.30pm. We’re in the midst of deciding where , but there may well be a guerilla…

So you slide into you’re battered vomit hued GNER seat, looking forward to closing your eyes for an hour or so. It’s 6.50am, the paper is slightly tempting but there’s a long day in front of you, it will be nice to give in to the urge to doze. Then there’s a commotion behind you.…

I was at a free conference in the morning. All the while I was thinking that the Breakfast Club Coffee Morning was only about 500 yards away. I finally got there at 1.30 to meet Carol, not thinking some Coffee Morningers might still be around. We had a good hour or so plotting this and…

If you do nothing else today, read this post from Rob Campbell on presentaphobia. The most useful advice I’ve read in ages. Just do it.