Have been doing some more work on the Prison Visitors Centre DVD. There's been some slight changes in the system for booking visits etc. Was nice to catch up with Chris again to rerecord bits of his voiceover.  The French version wasn't quite complete so this was a great opportunity to make sure it was up-to-date and a friend of Carmen's called Judith came in to adjust Gervais's translation and rerecord the voiceover. Gervais is from the Congo so it was fascinating working with Judith and hearing about the differences between Congolese-French and French-French. This whole process of translating the DVD into a variety of languages has been amazing. It's interesting seeing which translations can fit the timing of the original film with ease - the Russian and the French have been the biggest challenge so far and I've had to include stills to ensure the words fit the images. Judith thinks she might be able to find us some Lithuanian students next...

We had the last ever Shelly Telly Table Tennis Club Night at the Miller Hall at the Norman Centre tonight and it was a good one. Lots of new people turned up and it was loads of fun. It was slightly more sedate than usual because we combined it with a Knit-In for helenofnorwich's giant scarf - sometimes the temptation to sit and knit rather than do some sport was too much for people! The Norwich and District Table Tennis League are now passing ownership of the Miller Hall over to the City Council and the room will be used for lots of different things. We will miss it - we've had some fabulous eveings there over the last couple of years.

Had a cuppa with a lovely woman called Pat Howe today. Pat runs a voluntary group called Spirit of Carnival and they are organising a Community Parade called Fridi Gras in Norwich on Friday 9th July. I met Pat at a meeting about Norwich's bid to become a city of culture. Pat is keen for Norwich Pride to be involved in Fridi Gras and can offer us workshops and materials to create costumes. Sounds fab - will be wonderful to be embedded in a mainstream cultural event and dance alongside schools and charities and community groups. And it's a great opportunity for me to learn some costume-making skills for Shelly Telly.

Had some tea and cake with Nicola from Supporting People this morning. She's organising a "Let's Get Involved" Conference on 29th June and wants me to run a couple of workshops on "Creative Involvement" using my flip camcorders. Connie from Dereham is going to assist me which will be brilliant. We brainstormed ways of ending the conference in a creative, interactive way and came up with the "Evaluation Raffle." People would be given slips of paper to write their favourite thing about the conference. These would be put in a hat and a selection pulled out at random and read aloud. The people who wrote them will get prizes. In this way there will be the excitement of a raffle (I love a good raffle!) and we'll get to reflect on the day in a positive way. Nicola also agreed for me to organise a Knit-In for the giant Pride Rainbow scarf at lunchtime whilst the "Involvement Cinema" featuring the Supporting People DVD and other films are screened.