Fame at last

Well - 10 seconds of it, anyway. I was on the 6 o'clock news on the BBC last night - for all of a few seconds, talking about losing my job at Becta and trying to sing for my supper. Fortunately there was more footage shown of me singing than speaking - I'm much better at the former than the latter. This is all part of a BBC project that's just launched, following the fortunes of public and private sector workers in Coventry over the next year. I even ended up in a panel discussion on local radio yesterday morning! And I have my own BBC News article. Think this counts as my 5 minutes of fame? This all tied in with me also getting a part-time job at Holy Trinity. I start as Parish Manager on Monday! Beginning to feel that this leap of faith I took on leaving Becta without fixed full time work to go to might just have been the right thing to do!

And...1, 2, 3, 4

The singing season of 2011 starts in earnest next weekend. I'm guesting at a concert near Dudley, with Radio 2's Nigel Ogden. Good way to start the singing year.

Next up will be Rutter's Requiem in April, which I'm looking forward to as well, and then they start to come thick and fast. This is good.

Keeping up

...or maybe not.

I'm finding out the true meaning of plate spinning at the moment. Not only have I got loads on work-wise (not least, the ceremony of the Church School Awards on 24 March, with all the busyness that brings with it), but the boys have sprouted social lives that even the most active It girl would be proud of!

In March/April, we're running at a current total of 6 birthday parties, at least one football match, band rehearsals, football clubs x 2, jazz dance and that's without trombone lessons etc. I'm now beginning to more fully appreciate what my Mum and Dad did for us when we were little!