CreativeCoffee Club (6)

It's the fortnightly meeting of CreativeCoffee Club at Phoenix Square Digital Film and Media Centre. No speaker, no particular topic this morning, but a little more formal and structured than our last meeting two weeks ago. We've moved out of the Screen Lounge cafe bar into one of the education suites upstairs. Or perhaps we have been moved out - there's a suggestion that last time there were so many of us that we took up too much space and encroached on a meeting of the University of the Third Age (U3A), who gather in the Scfreen Lounge cafe bar before going into a special showing of a film just for them. Last time they were waiting to see Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey. Well, that shows that they've got stamina. They should put that on a double bill with Kubrick's Spartacus, with a break in between in case anyone needs to shave.

Some of the core members are here (Ben, Farhanah, Ian, Mel - who all cross over with Amplified Leicester) but there are another dozen or so, for whom  it's their first time here. We've got two minutes each to introduce ourselves and pitch our business, service, whatever it is we bring to the table. Jayne keep time with the stopwatch on her iPhone. When it's my turn, I take the opportunity to hand round bookmarks, postcards, flyers and my business card for the Council of Faiths. How come I'm the only one to do that today? I'd have thought stuff like that would be Networking 101.

After all the intros, we can move back downstairs to the cafe bar, as the U3A people have cleared the space. Not much time to get into conversation today, as I have to dash off to my next appointment at Voluntary Action Leicester, starting 12 noon.

I should mention that this morning I've taken the opportunity to collect some signatures on the Heart Link petition to support the continuation of children's surgery and cardiac services at Glenfield Hospital.