Early morning sitting in my kitchen watching two of my daughters playing in the snow in our back garden and wishing I could go back to bed - late nights and kids just don't go together. I look forward to the gigs we do and always really enjoy myself but as a single parent with three young daughters it's always a double edged sword. Great we've got a gig on a night when they're with their mother - whoopee I'm single again. Not so great when we get a gig and I'm the parent in charge - babysitter needs arranging which is ok but they don't stay overnight and get the kids up in the morning do they? Poor old me gets home in the wee small hours and has to be up all responsible and adult-like at some unearthly hour which brings me back to this morning - I'm just off to to judge a snowman competition ...