Christmas break

Today I went to watch Daniel's music concert at school. Daniel is learning the Cello and today his music class did a concert. It was a mix of 7,8 & 9 year olds and consisted of 110 instruments which is very impressive. The school is quite a big believer in music - and why not? Sadly over 80 of the instruments were Violins, the rest Cellos.

So the result? 80 Violins and 30 Cellos all in the hands of children? How exactly can I put this?

It was - er - Lovely?

I personally love hearing 110 different cats being strangled at ever so slightly different times and in ever so slightly different tunes. It is now my personal favorite thing.

Bless them. They all tried hard and they all beamed with delight at the applause, so you can't really argue with that can you? I just wish 109 of them could have tried harder to keep in time with my boy.

I am very proud of him. The concert was.... lovely. Honest!

On another note; Christmas is coming and I’m almost done for the year, which is brilliant – I am quite excited.


In fact I finish working tomorrow and have some seriously good time off to look forward too. This is great news for me as I am well ready for it.

It is bad news for my blog life though, because I lose my main writing time, which is during my commute. I’m absolutely going to prioritise having some quality time with my family and that doesn’t just mean playing with the boys during the day. It also means spending some nice evenings with my lovely wife, instead of sitting with my laptop on my knee reading blogs. Tomorrow’s post is already written, but after that I’m empty.

So I’m afraid blog posts from me will be a bit sparse during the holidays, as will comments and reading your sites. I hope you forgive that and understand that at the end of the day, what would be the point of writing about being a Dad and a Husband if you aren’t going to take the chance to actually do it for real at Christmas?

I know what I am like, there is no way on this planet that I won’t be checking in now and again, there is no way I won’t be having a sneaky read or write when an opportunity knocks, but on the whole I shall be spending some very nice time with those people who are both the light and the dark of my life.

They might be monsters, but they are my monsters – and I love them!

That said; where are my keys? I’m off to the pub; it’s bloody noisy in this house. The kids are running around like over-excited maniacs and Jo keeps pointing out all the things she thinks I should be helping with. I need to get out for a bit!