Thought it was about time for another installment of what’s been
happening in our world at present. As
many of you probably know, just 3 weeks ago Byll and her partner Tom gave birth
to the most gorgeous little bub. He is
the apple of everyone’s eye at the moment and he and his besotted parents are
all doing amazingly well. As the younger
one, I give thanks everyday that I get to watch my older sister go through
everything first, pave the way, make life a little less terrifying. Well, some things less terrifying..
There have also been many good hours dedicated to continuing writing
and demoing for this new album that we are due to make before the end of the
year. Though as we’ve discovered, having
a newborn baby around can be rather distracting to the required amount of
discipline needed to come up with genius work and sometimes ‘writing sessions’
have quite quickly turned into simply looking at the baby do hilarious baby
faces for two hours.
A strange sequence of events did however occur when within 24 hours
of a significant birth, our grandma who has been battling Alzheimer’s disease
for the past five years and fought palliative care for 5 weeks towards the end,
waited long enough to welcome her first great grandson before finally slipping
away. All things certainly do happen for
a reason, which makes me believe that it was no coincidence, but rather a
carefully timed handing over of life.
Thankfully there was light brought to our grandma’s funeral when to
close the service a recorded version of our song ‘Grandma’ was played in honour
of her. Through a muck of tears, we were
stunned into quiet laughter when the play button was hit and our song was
played at a tempo that made our already sweet voices turn chipmunk(!) We thought we were young when we recorded
that song, but this was something else.
So now we enter the period of existing as the generation in the
middle. It is quite strange as most brand
new roles often are, but it is also unbelievably exciting in a way I never
would have expected. Though I guess
that’s what happens when you recognize yourself growing up, hey.
Beth
