How’s your cab business doing?

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Silverobama

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Yan, an old friend of mine, has been in my online chat group for a while. The main purpose of the group is to inform members about when and where the English clubs meet. A few days ago, I posted in the group that I would be working part-time by driving a taxi, so I couldn’t host the Sunday Club any longer. However, Yan didn’t receive the message. He saw the messages yesterday, and here's part of our conversation:

Yan: Hey, Silver. How’s your cab business doing? I hope you earn a lot by driving taxis. I didn’t check my phone and I noticed that just now you are not going to host the club. Is Sunday’s club still on?
Silver: Thanks a lot for your message, mate. The club still meets every Sunday except this week because the new host is out of town, so, it will be restarted next week.
Yan: Okay, thanks a lot for your information. How about the Wednesday one? I didn’t see anyone in the venue (where it’s held) this week.
Silver: The Wednesday club will meet next week. The host was sick.
Yan: Thank you so much!
Yan: Anytime!

Please help me to correct this conversation to make it natural and grammatical.
 
Yan, an old friend of mine, has been in my online chat group for a while. The main purpose of the group is to inform members about when and where the English clubs meet. A few days ago, I posted in the group that I would be I'm about to start working part-time by driving a taxi as a taxi driver, so I couldn’t can't host the Sunday club any longer anymore. However, Yan didn’t receive the message. He only saw the messages message yesterday, and here's part of our ensuing conversation:

Yan: Hey, Silver. How’s your cab business doing? I hope you're earning a lot. by driving taxis. I didn’t check my phone and I just checked my phone and noticed saw that just now you are you're not going to host the Sunday club anymore. Is Sunday’s club it still on?
Silver: Thanks a lot for your message, mate. The club still meets every Sunday, except although it won't happen this week because the new host is out of town, so, it will be restarted restart next week.
Yan: Okay, thanks a lot for your the information. How about the Wednesday one? I didn’t see anyone in the venue (where it’s held) this week.
Silver: The Wednesday club will meet be back next week. The host was sick this week.
Yan: Thank you so much!
Yan: Any space here time!

Please help me to correct this conversation to make it natural and grammatical.
See above. Remember that in natural everyday conversation, we use contractions a lot! In Yan's first line, you used "How's" (good) but later "you are" (less natural than "you're").

I'm going to show you how such a conversation would go in real life for a couple of BrE speakers (I'm assuming the conversation is by text/WhatsApp, not in person):

Yan: Hiya! Hope the taxi driving's going well. Earning much? Just checked my phone and saw you're not going to host the Sunday club anymore! Is it still on?
Silver: Thanks mate! The club's still on but the host's away this week but it'll be on next Sunday.
Yan: Great, thanks for the info! What about the Wednesday one? I was there this week but didn't see the group.
Silver: The host was sick. It'll be back next week.
Yan: Thanks.
Silver: Any time!

(You forgot to answer his question about how the new part-time job's going.)
 
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