This means I can attend a Stitches and Hos event in Kings Heath, Birmingham next Tuesday 27th January at the Hare and Hounds pub from 7:30pm.

It looks like great fun from the photos on facebook and I like the fact that there are DJ’s there providing tunes to knit by so if it does turn out that I am a terrible knitter I can at least enjoy some music and a vodka cranberry.

If I need to truly distract myself I might continue writing down ideas for a cabaret festival I would like to devise to take place in Moseley this summer, more details to follow. I am going to chat to the Moseley festival committee about it at the 2009 festival launch meeting on Wednesday 28th January at the Java Coffe Lounge opposite the fighting cocks pub garden on King Edward Road in Moseley. Anyone is free to pop along with ideas for the festival and to find out about how to get involved from 7pm. I volunteered in 2006 at the music in the park event for the festival and had a great time. I even took my own ‘poetry tent’

I need to document things more as it is never long before things change in this city (Birmingham). I keep meaning to take a photo of the Marilyn Monroe sculpture on the roof of bar Missing on Hurst Street before anything happens to this iconic feature like the removal or lending of Kong which is often mentioned by my relatives at family gatherings.

I’ll put it on my to do list along with ‘purchase limescale remover’.