After the excitement of Litup on thursday at the Albany, or ‘Apples and Snakes Place’ as it is really…. and seeing Baba Israel, Lemn Sissay, Aiofe Mannix, Stacy Makishi, Zena Edwards and Polarbear amongst others all in a few hours – my brain is a bit squashed with words, talent and ideas. It’ll all file away in a few days but is confettied at the moment!

Yesterday I shadowed the Mascots at WBA, the four little boys who were full of excitement at meeting their heroes and getting to walk out onto the pitch hand in hand with the players before kick off. One pinched the player’s belly to see if he was real – luckily he giggled and didn’t throw a footballer’s strop – they’re not like that at WBA:) Once the kids were having a kickabout on the pitch in front of over 30, 000 fans they forgot all about being nervous and were just enjoying the best bit of footy of their short years, and oblivious to the famous players trying to walk past their goal attempts.