At Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media
Centre this morning for CreativeCoffee
Club. Last time I blogged about CreativeCoffee Club (21 March) I mentioned that I hadn't been for a while - not
like me, I said, to have missed
three in a row. I'd never done that before. Well, maybe that is just like
me these days, because I've done the same thing again: not by choice, I've been
busy on those alternate Wednesday mornings. But it's nice to be back today.
Things have clearly changed while I've been
away. There's a free buffet this morning! "Alright for some", you may
say, faithful reader, but I'm glad to say that it's not mere self-indulgence.
Phoenix Square is introducing a new menu in the cafe bar and we're being used
as guinea pigs, testing out the new range of buffet snack foods. Well, when I
say "we", I mean "they" since I don't actually get to taste
any of it myself. After the food is laid out, I keep doing what I'm here to do
- networking. Several people urge me to get to the table and help myself, but
by the time I do, everything is gone. Not a bit of it left. The traditional
English proverb springs to mind: "He who hesitates is lost." I might
be well advised to apply that to a few other things going on in my life these
days!
Maybe I'm too much in love with the sound of
my own voice, and in the end that will be my undoing. I'll keep talking and
starve to death, despite all the food I could eat being laid out for me, free
and unasked for.
However, since we're being asked this morning
to respond to Phoenix Square's Catering Manager, Richard Smith, about food, I
take the opportunity to raise a matter that has weighed heavily on my mind for
several months now: jelly babies. That was going to be a single paragraph in
this blog entry, but it's grown and grown. If you want to follow that thread,
faithful reader, then click here.
I chat briefly with Cheryl Gill (Enterprise Support
Officer at LCB Depot and Phoenix Square) whose hand is on the tiller of CreativeCoffee
Club these days, about playing a part in setting its future direction. I keep
harping on about being the longest-surviving participant in CreativeCoffee
Club, from back in the day when it was held in the Graduate Bar at De Montfort
University, starting in the late summer / early autumn of 2007. I don't know if
that long track record is reason enough to stake a claim in determining its
future. I sat on a short-lived committee that met once hardly eight months ago
and which (despite the best intentions of its members) took CreativeCoffee Club
down a bit of a dead end. I don't want to do that again. But I reckon I owe it
to Cheryl (and to the legacy of Jayne, Shani and Professor Sue) to give it
another go. This new committee will get together immediately following the next
meeting on Wednesday 30 May. If I can finally get a space between the separate
words, "Creative" and "Coffee" then my work here will be
done.
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