Back to it…for 2024.

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It’s that time to get going again but I don’t know about you, it feels like a wrench. This time last week I was in Seville and in ‘switch off’ mode. It doesn’t happen very often, where I get to just switch off and not care for a bit. I could go out and sit […]

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A new chapter…

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I’m about to start my Christmas run. Once that begins on Thursday it’s head down until the 22nd. Go and sing and then come home to rest, then go and sing again and then rest. It doesn’t bother me as I’m not a ‘go out’ person anyway. Even if I could go on a night […]

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What’s it all for?

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I’m sat on my bed writing this. It’s a Thursday morning. I don’t have much to do today apart from taking my ladies choir in Holmfirth tonight. I woke up with the songs they are doing in my head, and drilling coming from next door. I’m catching up on emails and planning programmes for things. […]

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Keeping it real…

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Hi Everyone. How does the time go so quickly? I used to have lots of spare time to be totally focussed on singing, but life is giving me so many more things now too. I’ve been growing my own food at an allotment and then we’ve been given stuff by other people too so it’s […]

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Not everyone will like what you do, but do it anyway.


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Hi Everyone. I hope you are all doing ok in this craziness. People ask if things are getting back to normal for me. No. That life has gone for me. When they announced the lockdown last March the life that I had lived until that point was gone. Never to return. It’s over. For me […]

June 27, 2021

Carrying on and keeping singing……


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It’s a while since I wrote my last blog post, and then I just spent the last few hours writing one and it deleted it. The whole thing. OMG!!!!!! Had to start again…….aaargh!!!! Now I feel like saying ‘I’ve sang for lots of people. Lucky me. Love my job. The end. Have a lovely day […]

May 16, 2021

‘No plan Nick’ right now….


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Someone asked me today if I had any plans? ‘No, not really’. I did take some time off and it was sooooooo lovely. I love singing for people and I’ll go down doing it really. It’s my total passion, but having time off was such bliss. Waking up and not having any plans for the […]

March 28, 2021

Resting, resting, one, two three…..


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I spoke in my last post about taking some time out and I haven’t really. I spent January getting ready for my online gig last Sunday, and was out singing for people. Working on some new songs for it. Takes time and work every day to get my technique around it and it into my […]

February 14, 2021

Some big fat ‘time out’.


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I’m not sure where to start today. It’s been about 5 weeks since I wrote a blog post and I need to start writing them more frequently again. Before all this happened nearly a year ago, I was writing it every two weeks. I’ve been taking time out. For me. To look after my own […]

January 17, 2021

Jingle Bells, Rudolph smells…….


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Hi. I waited to do my blog because I knew I was going to be in The Big Issue magazine today and wanted to feature it here. I was interviewed a few weeks back over a glass of wine and I spent an hour and a half telling my story, warts and all. It shocked […]

December 14, 2020

Buy me a beer…..


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I woke up with the song ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year’ in my head. Over and over again. It will probably be in my head all day now. I’m learning all my Christmas music now because all that begins in a few weeks. More concerts for people all throughout December. I’ll be […]

November 21, 2020

Proud as punch….


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Hi Everyone. I’m writing to you from Cornwall. I spent the last two days driving down here with a few little pitstops to sing (in Rugby and Frome), and to see my good mate Claire in Kintbury. We worked together nearly three years ago in Monaco, but we know each other from years back when […]

October 25, 2020

Little Miss Grumpy…..


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I’m a bit grumpy today and trying to work out what I am actually feeling and what’s annoying me. I’m just making some apple and pear chutney with the apples and pears I got in my veggie box. I don’t like anything going to waste. I was meant to be singing somewhere this afternoon but […]

October 3, 2020