St. Pauls School, in Dallington Christchurch

Well, while I was in Christchurch, my daughter and I visited St. Pauls School in Dallington.

The kids were really pleased to see us and we both felt quite famous!! It was a really neat experience.

Firstly the 2 classes sang "Individuality" with us while I played guitar. It is such a nice feeling to see kids happily singing along to my own songs!!

We talked about what it's like to be at that 'inbetween' age and I played them a song that I'm writing called "In Between" - here's the chorus

"In between - being a kid and being a teen
In between - who I am and who I've been
In between - what I'll see and what I've seen
'cos it feels like I'm in between....."

and they liked it!! Thought it was good!! So now I can finish it off and that'll be the first song on a new CD for Intermediate-age kids!! Don't know when it will be finished, but at least it's a start!!

They gave me some GREAT ideas for new songs to write - everything from the first time you kiss a girl (hmmmmm, thanks Jack!!) to chocolate, from little brothers and sisters to revenge on the teachers!!!! But my favourite idea was "do I get to hug my Mum still and do I get kisses from Grandpa/ma anymore?" - one day that will be a song!! Thanks to you all for such cool ideas!!

Then my daughter - Sian - sang a song I've written about the clouds and how you can see shapes and things in them. It's called "Changing Clouds" and it's a very relaxing song. It was nice.

Then I gave the teacher a copy of a song called "Save the Planet" about little things each of us can do to be a bit more environmentally friendly. The kids all listened and joined in on the "Save the Planet" bits!! It was cool to hear some kids singing it!! Yay!! Thanks again all of you at St. Pauls and to Louise (Mrs Bolton!) Keep up all the excellent singing!! You all rock!!

Going away

I'm going away for a few days to Christchurch. I have to go to a funeral. Not a very happy thing to be going down there for really.

While I'm there I'm going to visit an Intermediate to 'hang out' with a class of kids who love to sing. They sing "Individuality" which is really cool to know! I want to write some songs for that age group, so they are going to give me some ideas. I think they want to ask me some questions about writing songs too, so that'll be fun!

We might stop at Maruia Springs and have a soak in the hot pools. I like doing that when I go to Christchurch!

I'll write more when I get back and let you know how I got on with the Intermediate kids.

See ya =D

A New Website

Hi everyone!

I have a new website that you can go to to listen to some of my songs, watch a video, or buy one of my CDs.

Here's the address: www.songs4kids.co.nz Feel free to go and have a look and email me if you like!

I saw some children walking down the street with their faces painted today. Do you like getting your faces painted? I do!

I have started writing a song called "The Silly Song" - I'll sing it at my next big concert which will be at the Nelson School of Music in October. Tell you more about that another day!

Have a happy day =D