At the moment we seem to lack cafés, so any help in finding
more will be greatly appreciated. I’ve also been a rather a little too busy
recently to visit cafés. So maybe this gives me a little time to reflect on why
these spaces are important to creative practitioners. Interestingly, I’m
currently sitting in the Escape lounge at Manchester airport waiting for a
flight to Malaga. I’m writing, so it becomes a Creative Café. There are free newspapers. A bonus.
Interestingly, at home and in my study at the university I
write facing a blank wall and any noise, even the birds twittering, can put me
off. Yet I write happily here, on a Virgin Train to London from Manchester and
in any sort of café. I still haven’t worked out quite why that is.
There’s piped music here and because of the time of year a
lot of it is jolly and Christmassy. It’s not disturbing me. It would at home or
in the office.
Two very useful things happen here. The writing takes my
mind off the wait for the plane. Writing here makes me feel part of the
world. I guess some full time writers
may welcome the change of space.
