THE MOST FUN THING I DO

I often hear myself telling people that choir is the 'most fun thing that I do.'

I don't always think of it like that though. Ask me at 2am the next time I'm up moving crotchets around a computer screen while every muscle in my body is yearning for me to go to bed. Or maybe when I'm in the middle of recording the parts for a training CD and my laptop crashes or I accidentally send the mic flying or something. Yeah, ask me then.

However, on nights like tonight, if you were to ask me, you'd hear me say that running a choir is irrepressibly, wonderfully and inescapably enjoyable. I can't explain why - maybe the collective excitement at singing in harmony and sounding great together, maybe the unexpected buzz of achievement or maybe the sense of fun and freedom that just flows through that particular group of people. Whatever it is, it turned out tonight to be just what I needed.

It could possibly be the contrast with work, which has been challenging this week, with decorating, which has been boring, and with other things that have left me... despairing.

However I still can't get away from the fact that being in, directing, leading and sometimes teasing out the best from a community choir remains after four years and by a long margin, the most fun thing I do.