"... Happy New Year ..."
Well ... better late than never! Let's just go straight into the news update ...
Since you last heard from us Toti has decided to go into business for himself doing what he loves ... music! He is opening a recording studio (www.soundonsite.co.uk) with capabilities to do location recording as well as on site recording, mixing, mastering, editing and will work with graphic designers to design the CD covers for their recordings as well as providing clients with as many copies of their CDs as they want. This will also give Toti the oportunity to write and record his own music for (hopefully) TV, film, websites and anything else.
He will also be hiring himself out as a sound engineer and producer, working both in his own studio and other studios in England. Alongside this the business has the equipment to hire Toti out as a live sound engineer with the option of recording gigs, confrences, lectures and whatever else.
Last but not least, Toti has taken on funky bass duties in a 70s band/show called 70s express as well as playing in a band (with the same people) called Pure Fantasy. As you can gather, these are mainly private functions, holiday camps etc. so that will keep Toti gigging about three times a week and is a useful source of income for the business, as well as being something Toti loves doing ... although he is still trying to come to terms with having to wear makeup on stage ... not exactly the outgoing flamboyant type, really!
Joanna is enjoying work but the shifts that Toti is currently doing are making life harder for her as she is having to do alot of the work at home with the boys in the evenings and in the mornings.
Joanna is also working hard at her work related studies (made more difficult by group members who don't hand in their work on time and certainly don't meet Joannas standards when it comes to committment). Those high standards are exactly why the Freysson-Burton household works well despite the Freyssons being quite out of touch with anything to do with organising and time managing :-)
Jolyon is still loving his football and has just come back from a 3 day sports trip to Wembley in London with school. He now fancies trying some cricket as well. Football will always be number one though!
Scouts are also a great source of fun and energy release. Toward the end of August Jolyon will be going away, along with 5 other scouts and some scout leaders, on a 10 day camping trip in Holland. We are hoping that he will come back having built up even stronger friendships with his scout friends and neighbours because he still struggles to make friends, although we are making headway.
Elijah is blossoming at his new school (he started at Wakefield Independant Nursery in January). He looks really cute in his uniform and now tells us "I'm a school boy," very proudly! He and his brothers find daddys shifts very hard as well as mummy and daddy and we can't wait for daddy to be self employed so he'll be at home in the evenings and for the school runs! It's taken a toll on us all emotionally, more than we expected it would!
As for our future dreams, Joanna wants to live in Iceland and Toti wants to live in England. Due to, amongst other reasons, Jolyon slowly finding friendships here in England we don't want to uproot the boys again. So, we'll be staying here until Elijah finishes Wakefield Independant in ... 15 years time approximately. In 15 years Joanna will also be able to take early retirement (because she'll be 35 then ... won't you babe ;-). Until that happens we're planning:
1. For Totis to successfully make a decent living being self employed in the music industry, therby freeing him up to move between countries fairly freely!
2. To have purchased a nice second home in Iceland which will become our first home once the boys are grown up!
3. To have two happy and content young men who can enjoy the positive experiences they have in life and build on the negative ones to become stronger persons!
Not too much to ask for we think!
Until next time (in 2022) ...
Love,
Toti, Joanna, Jolyon and Elijah xxx
Since you last heard from us Toti has decided to go into business for himself doing what he loves ... music! He is opening a recording studio (www.soundonsite.co.uk) with capabilities to do location recording as well as on site recording, mixing, mastering, editing and will work with graphic designers to design the CD covers for their recordings as well as providing clients with as many copies of their CDs as they want. This will also give Toti the oportunity to write and record his own music for (hopefully) TV, film, websites and anything else.
He will also be hiring himself out as a sound engineer and producer, working both in his own studio and other studios in England. Alongside this the business has the equipment to hire Toti out as a live sound engineer with the option of recording gigs, confrences, lectures and whatever else.
Last but not least, Toti has taken on funky bass duties in a 70s band/show called 70s express as well as playing in a band (with the same people) called Pure Fantasy. As you can gather, these are mainly private functions, holiday camps etc. so that will keep Toti gigging about three times a week and is a useful source of income for the business, as well as being something Toti loves doing ... although he is still trying to come to terms with having to wear makeup on stage ... not exactly the outgoing flamboyant type, really!
Joanna is enjoying work but the shifts that Toti is currently doing are making life harder for her as she is having to do alot of the work at home with the boys in the evenings and in the mornings.
Joanna is also working hard at her work related studies (made more difficult by group members who don't hand in their work on time and certainly don't meet Joannas standards when it comes to committment). Those high standards are exactly why the Freysson-Burton household works well despite the Freyssons being quite out of touch with anything to do with organising and time managing :-)
Jolyon is still loving his football and has just come back from a 3 day sports trip to Wembley in London with school. He now fancies trying some cricket as well. Football will always be number one though!
Scouts are also a great source of fun and energy release. Toward the end of August Jolyon will be going away, along with 5 other scouts and some scout leaders, on a 10 day camping trip in Holland. We are hoping that he will come back having built up even stronger friendships with his scout friends and neighbours because he still struggles to make friends, although we are making headway.
Elijah is blossoming at his new school (he started at Wakefield Independant Nursery in January). He looks really cute in his uniform and now tells us "I'm a school boy," very proudly! He and his brothers find daddys shifts very hard as well as mummy and daddy and we can't wait for daddy to be self employed so he'll be at home in the evenings and for the school runs! It's taken a toll on us all emotionally, more than we expected it would!
As for our future dreams, Joanna wants to live in Iceland and Toti wants to live in England. Due to, amongst other reasons, Jolyon slowly finding friendships here in England we don't want to uproot the boys again. So, we'll be staying here until Elijah finishes Wakefield Independant in ... 15 years time approximately. In 15 years Joanna will also be able to take early retirement (because she'll be 35 then ... won't you babe ;-). Until that happens we're planning:
1. For Totis to successfully make a decent living being self employed in the music industry, therby freeing him up to move between countries fairly freely!
2. To have purchased a nice second home in Iceland which will become our first home once the boys are grown up!
3. To have two happy and content young men who can enjoy the positive experiences they have in life and build on the negative ones to become stronger persons!
Not too much to ask for we think!
Until next time (in 2022) ...
Love,
Toti, Joanna, Jolyon and Elijah xxx
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