This is the Poetry Vending Machine – in fact it vends poetry and art collaborations. This is the main project of InPrint at present, and today I went to UEA with poet Rupert Mallin to meet Anna Steward, who is joining InPrint and will do some of our publicity. She is hoping to help us fix up a tour in Shropshire next year.

This has been a big week. While granddaughter Amy Beth was suffering from chickenpox she learnt to walk. Dot went down to babysit for a couple of days and just about kept up with her. Meanwhile I collected our new car – a blue Mazda 3 Sport which seems very smooth. If the weather doesn’t turn really bad we’ll be off to Yorkshire in it on Sunday or Monday.

Tonight we had a band rehearsal at David Archer’s, and tomorrow we hope to go and hear Keiron Pim play at Jurnet’s. I’ve just finished David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, which was a very enjoyable read, though I’m not sure the links between the different stories actually made it into one novel. Perhaps they did. Good to read something so well done, anyway.