I rather suspect that it's time to get the lead out and interact with some of the human race. There's a lot of good things going on around here that I've missed simply because most of the time I either have my head in a book or up my ass.

It's a little late in the day for most of these, but this last one is certainly worth checking out:

8.30-10.30,
Thursdays; 21st February, 27th March, 25th April, 22nd May, 26th June
Brown Jug Inn, 204 Ramsgate Road, Broadstairs
'Poems & Pints': Round-table readings of poetry in a traditional pub.
This is an on-going event occuring each Thursday.

Full listings for Poets on Fire can be found here. Maybe it's time...

Also going to see what's going on at the Folkestone LitFest this year. 19 to 24 September gives me a reasonable amount of time to get something decent together...

Observers with eyes will also see that I've started to post 100 word stories. Seemed like a good idea at the time! I quite often get half-baked ideas at the most inconvenient of times and nearly all of them lie blowing in the wind, so they're just being emptied out into somewhere a little more constructive than the ether. There will indeed be 1000 of them in all. I have no idea how long it will take or even what they will be like - if indeed they need to be like anything. What's a Zodiac Lung for if not something to empty your head into.