Thoughts on leaving Australia (yet again!)

We’ve left Hobart and we’re now heading towards New Zealand. Managed to get the mac fixed in Sydney (to my enormous relief), so, while work on the CD is temporarily halted while I finish some arranging work, I can actually continue to work on it. As soon as I’ve finished the Regent christmas pad.

You know, I think I’m over ships. Especially as a lifestyle. Nothing to do with Regent, which has been a good company to work for. I just need a home. I’ve decided that the last song on the CD will be Somewhere over the rainbow as, really, I just want to go home. Every time I leave Australia, I miss it and the people in it a little bit more. Leaving Hobart, I was in a really bad mood. It was only tempered a little bit by Labor’s win over Howard and his conservative cronies in the federal election. Very pleased about that. Now, there is not a single conservative government across Australia at the state or federal level. It’s a hopeful time, and now more than ever, I want to be home to take part in it. Plus, Howard’s loss will be good for the arts and for academia. I hope Kevin Rudd lives up to all our hopes and dreams.

Another reason to go home is that I’ve made some useful contacts especially this contract, that will help me find some decent work when I get home. I do want to earn a decent living playing, which I’m assured I can do. We’ll see what happens when I return. But certainly, I need the CD finished, and I have a lot of work on at the moment. Both a blessing and a curse!