Especially if you don't smoke it any more. And you're supposed to be the person in charge. Proper laughing.

This has been a really interesting week. I’ve had some mental understandings and I don’t always know how to tell people what I mean. It began in the Royal Exchange. There are a lot of assumptions made to keep society’s engines running. I get that. What would happen if you threw all the rules away?…

After long negotiations The Reno and The Whitworth have agreed what our workshop should look like. It is to a really high spec. It's gonna look spectacular. Not one bit like a community project. Like they are giving us anything. Like they are doing us any favours. But, like the most poshest workspace…

What are we not enjoying is my question to the Reno 12. Their answers are in our video. I spent today teaching writing in the Royal Exchange to retirees over 70. You know my angle.  I was recruiting people from different backgrounds to film their memoirs when we move into the Whitworth. Their memoirs…

Photo curtesy of Karen Rangeley taken in the Whitworth 23rd of November 2017. A contentious one night stand. We were wary of the Whitworth. They were wary of us. Even to the point of covering their precious historic art with tissue paper so we could obliterate them with our Reno memoirs. It turned into…

St Bees St the corner of Denmark Rd. I’m quoting Miss Gail Allott tonight. Gail Allott: ‘Linda Brogan and Barrie George I completely get it when Barrie says he's in shock and that he didn't know he is so articulate When I have written comments and seen people react to them I truly feel blessed It's like…

We smash it with our photo-book design. All we'll have to do is watch this film back to understand the concept when we are ready to pull it together. We are geniuses. Totally rocking this shit. #excavatingthereno #therenolive

I'm quoting @Barrie George tonight who is getting infected with poetry vibe. 'Pebble. The pebble was a random thought, that was tossed into to the pond of the Reno. The ripples from that pebble reached the ears of the arts council, Manchester council, Salford university and other contacts. as the ripple…

We revisit our excavation photo edit from our R&D sessions week 4. Karen asks: Do the photos we picked still have relevance?' We're in week 14. We've had a lot of discussions. We've come up with reconstructing the Reno, and filming the memoirs before we were born. How has all of this impacted on our…

My favourite moment yet. Real empathy between a 34 year old white boy and a 74 year old black man. Beautiful. Simple. Gold. Anybody can empathise with anybody. No such thing as fucking racism really. Not in our souls. It's a construct. Just like class. You sit anyone down with anyone eye-to-eye in the…