A brief but necessary diversion

ahhhh ... how wonderful it is to have finished a job. I've been working on a paper for my doctoral studies and have just finished. Not that I'm unused to writing - I've written tens of thousands of words in recent years, but they were all reports, business plans, marketing propaganda etc. I hadn't prepared an academic paper in twenty years. Anyway it's done... so I'll allow myself a little indulgence.

Actually (can't get the paper out of my head) this is just the sort of artistic diversion that all we creative industries managers should engage in regularly to keep our artistic juices flowing and to recharge that little bit of soul that remains in our flinty commercial hearts.

So tonight it's not going to be writing (poetry that I do too infrequently) or painting (which unfortunately I don't do at all at presently - my studio easel is disassembled in the shed) .. it's going to be playing one of my geetars. This one's a beauty I've been lusting after for years and finally bought last Christmas. A Gretsch White Falcon. All you guitar guys out there know what that is. For those who don't the picture is here.

So... let's have some fun. Back to more sensible and managerial-type postings tomorrow - promise.