Goodness me! has'nt time flown? Already at the end of January and Christmas has come and gone. Well, life has being moving along, I have been away for a while on tour, but now I am home and back in the arms of my family.

Amazing how you sometimes find yourself wishing you were away from the family life, just so that you can be free again. You know that foot loose and fancy free feeling, with only yourself to think about?

The old phrase 'The grass is always greener' is so true. The moment I left home I began to miss the family noises, my son playing on his ps3 (in fact it's now an xbox360) my wife listening to her lastes 'The Script' album, the Tv on full volume in the front room, the neigbours hoovering the landing (thiers, not ours) the police sirens, the shouting, the running, the screams....... Sorry! got carried away for a moment.

Anyway, as a man who having been married for 27 years I sometimes wonder if things would have been different if I had not chosen to be a husband and father, the answer my friend is a definate 'OF COURSE! IT WOULD!' there is an 'however' attached to that, I know that I would not have experienced the life and times I have had with my wife. Who is quite possibly the only person who could have put up with me for so long and me still be alive......

I would not have had my sons scaring the living daylights out of me in the middle of the night, just to see my face as i collapse with a minor stoke (Only Kidding!) I would not have had such deep moments of joy, and occassional saddness shared with peole who love me for no other reason than because I am ME!

I am now back home and loving each moment, we have some tough times ahead as a family, and yet I know we can survive because we have each other. Amen to that!

catch up soon