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You Look the Business

Said Matt of Axis Productions, as I walked into the recording session with my black music case.

It’s become my default handbag for the increasingly common days where going out involves doing business.

Find one toddler with reins , one reluctant teenager, one doggedly ambitious singer and one black music case containing:

Posters, flyers, demo CD’s, stationary, purse and cards, keys, mobile, makeup, apples, wipes, spare tights and knickers (age two to three)

School holidays take us to Pickering to do some pre-publicity for my concert next Wednesday.

A pleasing day, networking and postering; children bribed with sit down meal, ice cream and handmade chocolate (with a thirteen year old it never comes cheap)

Back to the car, pop my stuff down by the passenger side to put Jennifer in the car seat, run round to the other to clear the chair for a fussy teenager and hop in the driver’s seat.

Back in York we pull into Somerfield to top up for our dinner.

Oh dear… no black music case in the car… no black music case in the boot…

…remember black music case is in on the grass verge by a roadside in Pickering.

One remarkably tolerant teenager, one annoying whining toddler, one doggedly ambitious but harressed singer, one hour-long hot, thirsty drive back to Pickering.

One grass verge…

one black music case….

Yes!!

“We will persevere” said my husband , Peter, when I walked in.