I’m quite excited about doing the new CD now! Getting my laptop set up to act as a synth and songwriting tool is fantastic, there are just so many great sounds to use! I normally use dedicated music computers, which are great, but recently I just seem to have used up all the decent sounds in there and nothing jumps out as being “wow”. But with the computer I can just use my credit card and download a whole range of really just fantastic new sounds, just the thing to get the creative juices flowing. It’s just great and I’m totally free as to what styles to do the new songs in – any requests?!!

So after a very happy morning doing music stuff I had a quick break, then went to check my mail and it crashed again! The spam mail I get is now so much the computer can’t compress it enough to back up properly and deletes everything! Madness. But luckily I introduced a fourth back-up system ( this time online) and I got things back to normal. But it is a hassle if this becomes a regular occurrence.