What the duck!

Having a couple of days at home between Holland and a trip north to the old homestead, Middlesbrough, for a concert in Stockton. I'm desperately hoping the ducks hatch today or tomorrow or I'll miss the great event. (Our 10 year old is incubating them in her bedroom...)  Off to Sicily on Monday then the mammoth weekend of Shostakovich in Glasgow. Can't wait. 

Hey there!

Hi 'blog-readers',

My name is Holly Cassidy, I am the older daughter of Paul and Jacky.

The oldies have been in and out of this house like me loosing my temper with my younger sister Celia (which i might add is alot!). So they're back tonight only to head STRAIGHT back out the door tomorrow so i've got bored and decided to write to the blog as it's my first time and decided to give it a try. So last week i had three performances with the school production, Sweet Charity. on the wednesday, they were away, on the thursday, they came! on the friday they were away in... somewhere... saturday and sunday they were in, like, Italy or something and the came back on sunday evening then went again monday morning then came back tonight (tuesday) then tomorrow they're away AGAIN till thursday! We've been left with our schools and granny. Gosh! Anyway, to be fare on them, this is a one-off thing... and they've been warning us about this 'busy month' for ages! Last year, we all went to Australia!! It was soo fun! We met loads of relatives we hadn't even heard of, Celia got bitten by a Koala (and sucked by a leach...arrgggh), and sun burned...ouchy. But it was soo much fu!!! We went to this dolphin wild life resort place called Tangalooma... omg, if you ever go to Ozzy, GO THERE!!!! Well, i'm going to go and say good bye to my parents yet again till thursday... : ) Holly x

 What an amazing week we're having. Every day sees us on another flight to another city with another programme, rock'n roll! Last night was the last concert of our Shost Cycle in Bologna. Daniel was a star.... that being his first S/C. Thankfully we've got a few more coming up in the next couple of years so all that work won't be for nothing. From now on though we're doing them in two days instead of over 6 months !!!! 

Glasgow's become a bit of a second home at the moment; The Wee Curry House and Sarti's are keeping us going post gig/teaching. Missed the League Cup Final on Sunday but managed to get on the earlier flight home to see the kids despite the best efforts of a couple of BA jobsworths. SO annoying !!!! Jacky, Ian and I were all at the gate ready to go but.... long story; only I got on. Mind you, missed Kirsty Young who was on the later flight. Was it worth it????

Tomorrow night's Brit 1/ 132 in Madrid which would be great but for the dreaded mike ! 132 on 'live' radio is not my idea of fun. Last Wed we had dinner in a restaurant frequented by the Real players..... it was very quiet for some reason ! Next problem, can we finish next Wed's gig in time for me to get to a screen for Man U v Inter (the return ) ?              PAUL.