OMG I have to go to a school concert tonight!

[Janstar]

Am I mean cos all I feel is dread, and hope it ends quick so I can go to the pub.

'Songs From The Musicals'...Somebody save me. Have already ingested two glasses of red wine to try and anaesthetise in advance, am considering smuggling in a book and making sure I am in the back row.

The things we put ourselves through for our kids, eh?

Why don't you come all over Liza Minelli and do a turn then you will never be asked to similar event again and probably be made to go home early?

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I wouldn't be going at all except that dd2 is performing or 'singing loudly and sweetly' as she calls it. So I have to behave, or she will not be seen in public with me again.

By the way I am now on the sherry! I hope I don't snore when I fall asleep.

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Time to go. Wish me luck then and if I live I'll post tomorrow and whinge some more.

I know how you feel Jan, I had to go to one this afternoon. NINETEEN songs!

Well here I am and managed to survive the ordeal. TWENTY songs and dd only performed in two of them.

And she was the smallest one on the stage...aaah!

The highlight was a boy with a quavering, breaking voice singing, 'Maria'. When he got to the line 'The most beautiful sound I've ever heard' dh was silently weeping and looking down. I think he knew if he looked at me it would all be over.

At least we were in the pub by 9.50pm trying hard to forget