Warming Up

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Best sleep of the week, somehow on a sofabed in a Premier Inn family room. Luckily everyone was knackered so no one woke up super early.

We headed home and always looking for new soundtracks to distract from the last over-played one (the kids have been obsessed with Hamilton, which to be fair, is not a bad one) I suggested that the kids might enjoy this brilliant Flo and Joan song that's been popping up on social media.

There's so much great stuff in here and the the Joseph and the Technicolour Dream Coat reference took us back to lockdown and how much we'd enjoyed watching the version of the show that got put out for free on Youtube.

So we played the soundtrack, but the kids were not really interested and didn't remember watching it six years ago (I have no memory of watching One Man, Two Governors to be fair) and though there are some great songs, it didn't play as well without the visuals.

The kids wanted more Flo and Joan, so we went on a not always totally appropriate deep dive into their work. There's plenty of childishness to keep Ernie happy, but both kids are developing more sophisticated senses of humour and it's a delight to hear them laughing at the really good bits as well as the bits about boobies or farting (which to be fair, are also really good).

So we might have supplanted Hamilton because we had to listen to everything and then listen to the favourite ones again.

There are some crackers and you search your music provider and Youtube for them if you're interested, but here's one of them.

By the end of the day we were searching for tour tickets (which are quite hard to get hold of unsurprisingly) but we're going to see them in Wells doing a warm up in May and there's still a few tickets for that one.

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