Diary Friday 31st March 2017

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Despite my worries, today went well, bringing the month and first quarter of the year to an end. My monthly welfare payment arrived in time which gives me enough income to cover my convention stay in mid-April. Now the main obstacle was the danger of a clash with my next welfare hearing after today’s. I had an advantage today in that the call centre course completed yesterday would dominate discussion. My adviser is limited in how long he can spend with me so having lots to bombard him with halted him having too many plans for me. In rapid succession I hit him with the course summary, the pending assessment test for the job on Wednesday, the fact that the employer are likely to reject me as a bad credit risk, my expenses claim for being on the course, my interest in other courses run at the same centre, my plan to launch myself as a self-employed writer and need to see a business advisor on that, and my plans to present my writing ideas to publishers at the science fiction convention, and that this I therefore a work-search trip as much as a holiday. I could see he was going cross-eyed at this point and put off seeing me again until April 19th. He is showing reservations at my public talk/performance events counting as voluntary work, which he says he may need to change my approaches to in future but for now, he was glad to see me get out. He even lamented in telling me to take any work offered that he would quit his job given half the chance, a rare moment of genuine humanity in him. I had expected a visit in the afternoon from my Landlady but she was feeling ill and sent apologies for her last minute cancellation. I was now free to visit the community centre’s weekly talk/entertainment event which this week involved dancing by the Leyland Morris Men Morris dancing team who were fabulous. Great songs and dancing, followed by a very nice buffet. Community Centre staff kindly offered me lot of free food to bring home too, along with some free clip files as they had a surplus of them. The evening involved a performance of my own at the Spark writing group’s monthly true stories open mic event, this month on the theme ‘awkward’. I’ll review that separately. Youtube – The Leyland Morris Men Morris Dancers in action – this I one of the dances they did for us though the film I from another event they were involved in somewhere else. Arthur Chappell