Well, February didn’t last long did it? Seems to be getting shorter and shorter between blog times, or maybe that’s because I’m having longer nap times.

Everyone seems to have a blog now. I’m a trend setter you know. Lyndsey is now writing up her adventures with Spot On – she gets to go out on trips to see all the shows and then she writes them up in her blog on the Spot On website. What’s even stranger is because she doesn’t have a car, she’s doing it all with public transport to see if she can get there and to encourage people to think more environmentally about the way they visit different parts of Lancashire. I think she’s mad. And we’ll soon see her change her tune when it starts to rain and she has to wait an hour for a bus in the cold, then again, apparently that happens to her a lot on the bus journey between Blackburn and Preston so maybe she likes it!

Ruth from Mailout has started a blog because the e-mailout website is being rebuilt. So anyone who wants to find information about the magazine we edit will just have to look on the blog, or facebook, or twitter, or they could just email Ruth as well. Whatever happened to just writing someone a letter eh? Not that I could do that either.

You might have picked up on the fact that I’m a bit fed up this month. It seems everyone has been out doing things and enjoying themselves and they’ve been leaving me here more and more. Worst of all, my chosen word for February is ‘Love’. Now I know it’s not an unusual word for February, Valentine’s Day and all that, but I reckon I’ve had just about enough of it all... Can you tell who didn’t get a card this year?

Valentines Day came and went. Rob, Sue and Lyndsey went out on Valentine’s night to see the first Spot On show of the season. It was called How to Build a Rocket, by Farnham Maltings. They went all the way to Whittington Village Hall – didn’t see Lyndsey offering to travel there on public transport! But I suppose three people sharing the car was a bit greener than it just being for one person. They all said how much they enjoyed it – Lyndsey and Sue won raffle prizes (apparently Lyndsey must be some sort of lucky charm because Sue doesn’t normally win). There’s a review and some pictures of it on the new Spot On website, so have a look. If you go and see anything from the season you can tag your photos with ‘spot on lancashire’ and add them on Flickr to the Spot On Lancashire group. It all sounds a bit complicated to me, but I suppose Lyndsey would help you if you got stuck.

The new Spot On website was launched and it looks really good, it’s all bright and colourful and it seems to be full of information that is constantly being updated. Check it out and let us know what you think. New things will be added all the time as we upload photos to the gallery and Lyndsey adds to her blog, so it’s not the sort of website you visit once and never again.

The other Lindsey got married this month. For those of you who don’t know there have been a few Lindsey/Lyndsey(s) in my life. Lindsey Gregory, now Lindsey West, used to be based at Robinson Howell Partnership. Apparently it was a lovely wedding, lots of happy people, food, dancing, cake .... sniff, I wasn’t invited so I don’t know for sure. But I’d like to congratulate her and her husband anyway.

I’ve been working hard to tell Lyndsey how I feel about her. I can’t greet her any more enthusiastically than I do already every morning. Much to my embarrassment really, I’m moulting you see, and most of my winter coat is shed down Lyndsey when she comes to work each day. I think I’m just going to have to leave it as a platonic relationship – I mean she is a work colleague after all.

Rob is still working on the Plugged In project, now they’re planning a mini conference that will happen at the end of March. They’re trying to get lots of people to meet the groups they’ve been working with so they can all talk about providing more opportunities for young people in their local area.

He’s off to Wigan again soon to evaluate those dancers with children in schools, more super power related conversations to follow I expect.

Sue has been out and about talking to more people about Spot On and how they could put more shows on across Lancashire. She’s got some funding for the International Village of Culture (IVOC) project, I think it means more shows and more chances to commission work from international artists. I’ll keep you informed with that one because it sounds really interesting. But she’s going to be on the radio on the 6th March, maybe she’ll talk about IVOC a bit more then.

They’ve all been working hard on mailout here, every couple of months it just creeps up and then suddenly the office is full of people reading the proof and checking for spelling mistakes and stuff I can’t help with. I do my bit by distracting them.

This edition is about Politics and the Arts; they made mailout rosettes in the office. I helped with the glue. We’re thinking of forming a mailout party and going for the election – my manifesto will increase the rights of dogs working in the arts, more bones in the workplace and compulsory nap times during office hours. What would be in your manifesto? Let me know.