Happy new year everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and that you're raring to go on this new year.
I'm so happy with my new compilation and relieved it's finally out after so many years of hiccoughs (funny spelling eh?) I'm booking gigs around the country so I hope to catch up with you on the road somewhere.I'll also be going to Norway to sing for Steiner Lindblad and his friends and I'm looking forward to that too.

Here at home I'm getting ready to wave off my daughter Su as she goes off to study in Estonia for 3 months.She's on a European Theatre course at Rose Bruford drama school. We've been buying thermals and moon boots cos it's very cold out there. Tara my eldest has gone back to Dublin to Trinity college where she's in her final year,hope she got that essay finished! That just leaves Issy at home with me and Finnalie the dog.

We had fun after Christmas when my friends and I crashed Issy's party! She threw a party for her new boyfriend Dean Heslop(talented musician) to introduce him to her friends(Dean's from Teesside, like me) Of course I was banished to the pub for the evening but the Divil got me at closing time when I invited a few friends back to terrorise the teenagers! As any parent knows, this is just about the most fun you can have with your clothes on.Issy was NOt amused at first but the kids got into the swing of things and instantly gave everyone nick names(Brucie Boner,Harry Potter's dad ,Sexy Sarah and Rod Stewart to name a few!!...never found out what mine was thank goodness )
Christmas went off without a tantrum (we'd already had them by the time Xmas day arrived!) and new year's eve was wonderful, spent with lovely people and sealed with a kiss.... so that leaves today.Today is full of hope and life and goodness.So I better stop writing and get about my business.Love to you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Claire