Arts Project Hello friend, This is the last Arts Project before the show days. This covers the 5 days prior to the first show. Choir rehearsal: went okay, despite the unwanted interjections from the same guy from the other day. It’s a shame; I had such big plans for the choir’s involvement which I had
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Arts Project Hello friend, Our first rehearsal this week went really well. It was another acoustic run through; we nearly made it to the end, bar 1 number. However, the day of the second rehearsal was very stressful. Firstly, at the rehearsal itself, we had one of the choir causing problems. He was actually attempting
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Food Hello friend, It’s with great sadness that I’ve come off the vegan diet. For some time now, the vegan choice on the servery (we only get one choice) has been getting worse; both in terms of quantity, imagination, flavour and nutrition. My vegan pack is also poor; apart from the soya milk. Food in
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Caterpillar Hello friend, Just when I’d nearly given up (it had been around 10/11 days), Carlos the caterpillar emerged from his cocoon as a beautiful, brightly coloured…moth! Well…not so beautifully coloured…more of a brown. ‘He’ still looked great, though. I’ve renamed him Marvin. He’s a bit ungrateful, though. After sitting there for a couple of
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Cell Search Hello friend, As a Category A prisoner, I get a cell search every month; including the extra searches they do throughout prisons, that’s over 180, and not once has there ever been anything found to be illicit – yet they still persist in this futile exercise. This month’s search: I came back to
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Arts Project (harassment) Hello friend, Following on my last blog on this (125). I spoke to a couple of senior managers about this; interestingly, neither seemed concerned that we only got 18 prisoners from C wing signed to attend the shows. I’m beginning to think that one of the managers has an agenda which involves
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Arts Project Hello friend, Harmony rehearsals went really well this week; everyone confident. Choir rehearsal, also, went well. Finally, finished programming the guitar effects pedal patches; I now know why I’m a ‘plug in and play’ guitarist. Had 2 rehearsals this week. The first one was acoustic based to work through the set changes with
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Arts Project (harassment) Hello friend, [sigh]…Yet more problems. We finally sorted out one of the teams going across to C wing (none of the team are on C wing to start taking advance bookings; however, he wasn’t allowed to canvass the wing. He was only allowed to sit at the Prisoner Information Desk; strange, the
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Caterpillar Hello friend, I never thought I’d be writing a blog entitled ‘caterpillar’. I found a caterpillar in a head of lettuce. I named him Carlos. He spent the next few days eating and defecating all over the lettuce. I put his (I say ‘him’) in a plastic bag with some fresh lettuce leaves and
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Campaign Site Hello friend, We got to the bottom of why the site went offline (see blog 106): we were hacked! It’s not clear if this site was targeted or we were just collateral damage; however, as soon as the site was back online, another attempt was made. Fortunately, the security software stopped the hack
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