Consider.  You can
drive up a drive you can walk up a walk but you can’t street up a street.  Discuss. Driving in London can drive me nuts. But
then driving me nuts (my nuts?)  is
enough to drive me nuts.  It's not an image to hang on.   I
pleaded with the Southbank  centre’s car
park attendant to pay him more money but he wasn’t having any of it.  He said my mortgage was enough payment for
parking.  Nice man.  

I meet with The Director  of two of my plays who is now The Artistic
Director of The National Theatre of
Wales,   John McGrath and my project manager  the exec producer of Artsadmin Gill Lloyd who’s a originally
from Wales.  I start to feel intimidated
and insist on both of them  addressing me
as  Doctor Sissay now that I am a doctor..
  They refuse.   After
a two hour meeting  we part. I stay behind
in the office  to arrange the wall with
projects in  2010.  After a good four hours alone working  there  on
organisation I leave. Above the door of the office are my words:

UFCB:  UNITED FEDERATION OF
COCOA BUTTER. Join Now.

I  just googled it and
no one’s done  it. It’s a great name for a club night.  I give the parking attendant my mortgage  and  race
over to the  Lillian Bayliss Studio  at Saddlers Wells Theatre   to see
the  Riz Ahmed’s work in progress,  Microscope .   Riz Ahmed 
(Riz MC) is an artist who stands alone amongst his peers,   an
original and in that sense not unlike Nitin Sawhney himself.  He has similar integrity. Riz  explores  truth, says the unsaid in ways that startle
and excite:  in ways unimagined with the
eye of a true artist.   I went  alone but  knew so many people in the audience it was
like being at home.  Theatre is home.     The 
Theatre/Dance/Music piece  is a work in progress and  thoroughly enjoyable.  I feel honoured to see it at its early stages.
Geddit. Early STAGES. Theatre. Stage. . Stagey Stagey Stage. Ahem.  I'll get me quote. I'll get me coat.