So, I predicted that 2010 promised to be an eventful year, and it hasn’t disappointed quite yet. My business interests have developed dramatically in several directions, with some huge developments still to come in the rest of 2010.

Soon will also see the launch of the new Future Visions website. I’m estimating it will see the light of day by mid-April. Unfortunately, my copywriter went dark recently, so that’s put a delay on the site that was set to be launched on March 1st.

Until next time, x!

A 12-year old car has been found dead at the scene of an engine failure in Worcestershire, today.

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At the end of August, Nic and I enlisted the help of Craig Ross for the Simply Associates photoshoot, the purpose of which was to get photos for the new website and marketing materials. But also, Nic and I both needed photos for our own other things. We popped into central Birmingham early one Sunday morning (Nic and Craig earlier than I, in fact) and dotted ourselves around taking pictures in all manner of serious and happy looking poses. After three or four hours, and around 300 photographs later, we got what we needed. You can see the results on Nic’s Flickr set.

Lots of new things are happening, all of which I’m very excited about!

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So, Friday evening (31st July) was spent in Coventry, watching a performance held by a friend of mine in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral.

Kristina has spent the last several months organising this performance, a stage-rendition lasting just over an hour of scenes from the famous Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris. This was the practical element of the final year of her degree at Coventry University, and I don’t think she’ll mind me saying she took a while to get the ball rolling, but I commend her for the hard work and sustained effort she has put in over the months leading up to last week’s big day.

My biggest contribution was to produce the website for her production company, In Touch Productions, and gave a little hand in other areas too. Leading up to the performance, we’d spent days checking, and crossing our fingers for, the weather forecast on Friday evening. We were promised cloud, but in a disheartening manner, Mother Nature gifted us said cloud right up until the beginning of the performance, before proverbially raining over the whole thing. When using an outdoor venue, you have to take this factor into account, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it was unlikely in July. Then when the performance ended, so did the rain.

I’ve never seen this kind of public spectacle before. Kristina made full use of the Cathedral area for the various scenes, whilst the audience moved around as the play progressed. I thought this was a unique, neat idea.

To find out about the performance, visit the website at http://www.intouch-productions.co.uk. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening, and congratulations to Kristina and everyone who played a part in the production.