Advent Eve Eve

Time for another one of my long updates….
I have badly missed the discipline and routine of more regular blogging.  I’m so glad it’s nearly the end of this month so I can go back to limitless amounts of postings. I may go mad in December and over-do it a bit and end up putting up 37 blogs in 10 days, but we’ll see. I like my little challenges, but in future I shall shy away from any that stifle my creativity as much as this one.

We had our first full rehearsal at the school today. I was looking forward to it, especially after Friday night when the band really tightened things up. We weren’t perfect, but we’d made good progress and we were ready to get things going with the cast. Then today, shortly after arriving at the school, I got called back to the garage for an ‘emergency’ which actually turned out to be a ‘minor incident’ that I wasn’t needed for, and by the time I’d got back to the classroom everyone had started without me. Not a good first impression, and I didn’t feel like I fully recovered. I hadn’t expected great things from the students, but even I was surprised by the lack of talent on display! This show needs a looooootttttttt of work and unfortunately we only have two more rehearsals with them before curtain up! Oh well - the parents in the audience will be concentrating on the kids rather than us, and as long as we’re halfway acceptable I think we’ll be ok. If the kids feck the songs up, it ain’t my fault. 

I thought getting involved in the show might push me over the edge as far as yuletide festivities goes. I’ve been having it rammed down my throat in messages from Head Office since September, and I’ve been secretly longing for the first week of January, but playing the Xmas songs with the band has managed to pull my head back into the ‘fun’ aspects of December, and these lovely, cold, frosty mornings are ramping up the cosy Winter feelings as well.
36 hours til my first Advent chocolate!!!

RC 29-11-16