I’ve found finer paint brushes hard to handle in the past. Those thin handles are just too fiddly and clumsy. Fan Boy 3 stocks a range of brushes that may help, having a larger triangular shaft that’s far easier to grip.
The problem with a meeting like this is that the crowd is a bit self selecting. In this case, more likely to skew toward a Mancunian Contract than the Manchester population in general, I think.
The workshops were quite interesting. Council employees were on hand to take notes, so I raised the idea of replacing all their filament bulbs with compact fluorescents. I should follow it up with a How to Save the World for Free interview request. And they gave us a free lunch whilst asking us questions that were recorded electronically from polling boxes and laptops.
There were also some Coronation Street stars, but I’m with the 25% who said they’d rather watch paint dry.
How will manchester change between now and 2015? That’s the question we’re supposed to be answering today. I’m here to do a bit of networking and blag free tea towels. If i can get some answers about the council’s environmental and transport policies whilst i’m about it, that’ll be book too. Technorati tag: moblog