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Has anybody got any x-rays tucked away that they'd happily part with? Don't care what body part, just need one to write a clue for Marie Curie on...

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Cheers
Kat

Well I'm running round the country trying to decide where I actually live, and definitely not knowing where I work!
Starting multiple routes to getting the storytelling going...

I'm promoting a regular storytelling night that is scraping break even in the Lakes (can fix for next year with nice program of marketing to tourists, didn't have everything in place for this autumn), and I'm looking to promote my own shows in other cities where I know enough people to be sure of an audience.

I'm looking at the possibility of a private hire of a pub/bar function room somewhere in London. So questions to my Londoner friends are:
WC/EC best for a working week evening? Would just south or just north of the river also be possible or Notting Hill/Kensington (some very good venues appear to be there)
If tickets were a tenner but included a cocktail as well as 1.5 hours performance with an interval - would that seem reasonable?
Can I get 30 - 50 people, using the contacts I know - on just 3 weeks promotion and no flyers? Probably not - so scrap November below...
Plan to try two different shows -one possibly as soon as the last week of November if I can get organised when in London at the end of the first week! - Love and Loss which is all poetic and darkly Romantic and Bawdy tales - which isn't.

Also, is anyone sufficiently confident that they know people in any cities other than London or Birmingham, that they would like to promote a gig for me. I need a minimum of 20 in the audience for it to feel worthwhile, and a ticket price which leaves at least £75 for me after paying venue costs and any cut you want to take for yourself! I'll provide the publicity and help hunt suitable venues! Long shot I know - but them what never asks...

Birmingham I think is gonna be the Pat Kav in Moseley or somewhere in Digbeth (ugh!)- but I'm venue checking out tomorrow anyway...

After a brief thought about trying to organise a costume ball/theatre evening in Hawkstone Caves for New Years (possibly to be resurrected at some point in time where planning is not so short...and I have time to go and talk to Roger) I began wondering about alternatives.

Would anybody interested in a "make and entertain" short break from 27th December - 2nd Jan?
The idea would be to pitch up on the Monday, thrash out ideas for a street theatre performance/game/adventure - make, plan and rehearse it over the week, and perform it on the New Year's evening somwhere in some town or city where we can get permission that would find that acceptable, but where there is enough other stuff going on that we don't need to advertise in advance.

Could be anywhere - UK or Europe - hired cottage or people's houses in a central place - budget to suit people that are available. Equally it could be an adult project or one that incorporates small growing creatures depending on who might consider it.

Budapest appeals if Overseas - as I've never been there, not sure for UK, fancied Edinburgh but the streets look too packed for anything to be seen - maybe Bath?

Any flickers of interest?

Is anybody (friends of friends as well as people I actually know) in the Brum area unemployed and up for heavy lifting for cash? There will also be tea drinking/morale boosting as I faff and pack. I'm moving out of my house over the next few weeks - with a big push on Tuesday 31st Aug and Weds 1st Sept - and could do with someone the Tuesday afternoon to help load, travel to Shropshire and unload and Wednesday morning to help me load before I head north to the Lakes.
I can probably pay about a tenner an hour...

what do you use for managing your reference materials?
I've had refworks cos ETSU recommend it but have never liked it
Zotero - but I don't understand it
any other suggestions
Ideally I'd like to be able to store all the online journal refs as links or pdfs in it with multiple tags rather than duplicating them in my file folders back on the pc. Plus I'd like to be able to attach long notes documents too. And even better if I can actually highlight the text and put notes in specific places... too much perhaps?

Also - when back in the UK I'm going to have two computers - what is the best way to store everything on the one hard drive and remote access. Do I go for some kind of uploading place - it needs to be able to cope with some basic adobe files - not sure if google docs can?
Or do I go for some thing where one pc can see the other that will probably be horribly slow..

Thoughst appreciated

So am going to finally get a proper website design and function sorted. (although the functionality is probably nothing popular widgets can't handle)

I know I know people who can do this - what I don't know if any one is actually working at the end of "building small clients sites"

Does anybody want to quote for it?

Awkward client not quite sure what she wants in terms of design and separating out different elements of her work - but other than that pretty sure of current and mid term functionality required - so appreciates site builder who can guide through maze of marketing thought as well as technical. Will want to be able to do own copy (and maybe sub page) additions after first design phase.

If you want to recommend friends please do so but not, at this stage, just "companies what you have worked with"

Won't be more than about ten different pages total I don't think, may be as few as three or four plus various widgety things. EG needs blog, twitter feed, main page, contacts, gallery, calendar, then static pages with different work offered. Crucial difference to what is currently at www.dreamfired.co.uk is that I want to have the blog part of the site, with the "what skills/shows I offer" foregrounded and the blog in the background rather than current set up. And I have to split "mainstream storyteller lots with very dark themes - including some schools work (eg like the stuff I keep at www.storyjunction.wordpress.com" "strategy and marketing consultant" and "bohemian/burlesque bawdy tales teller" Would actually like to find a way to make all those a part of one identity - whilst having the schools work stuff stored somewhere else that doesn't lead the kids looking at their work easily to the rest...

Will provide more detailed spec once I know if I know anyone to send the spec to!

timeline - to be sorted by mid summer if possible.

An access question. I have a database with a booking field which has a date based input mask.
I want to run a query based on multiple tables(yes a query not a report) which replaces the date based on the input mask which doesn't include day of the week, with a column displaying day of the week.

Booking= Format(Date(), "dddd, mmm d yyyy") I thought all I had to do was put this in the Field header for the column - but apparently not - it returns an error message

Anyone help?

Many thanks to the Search Engine Crew - I have sent Lethan off with some pointers, and when I actually care about people finding my website, will be commissioning someone to sort it out for me. Small brain, not enough space.

Another question - I was about to say in a presentation of the difference between arab and western european folktales is sometimes blurred because translators mistranslate Djinn as Fairy and then expound upon the Djinn having a place within Islam. Then I realised I didn't know if the bargain or binding is rooted in islamic mysticism or purely made up AM mythic reality... answers on a postcard please!

planning to order a pair of custom timberland boots to cope with the autumn winter here since my cheap boots just died. Anyone with Friday boredom want to play with the www.timberland.com design panel and pick me a colour pattern. to be worn mostly over black leggings,sometimes teal jeans or demin with black, teal, red or pink skirts. Am thinking black, white, navy and pewter as the limits of colour options probably - but I don't have that eye for colour that some people do..
Women's 14inch is the starting model.