Does this feel like we are all warming up for the big jump? This term is being challenging for me on many levels: I have just finished touring and presented for the last time, my latest piece. Starving Dingoes. I am so proud of that piece, I love it, viscerally. It divides like crazy, it keeps evolving (jumping back on what Matthew mentioned in a comment on my previous blog post: yes I believe the end result keeps evolving, it grows, it matures...and all this before (because of even maybe!) the eyes of an audience, which is so exciting to me. We performed it 19 times in total. This tour involved: 1. Extra funding 2. Extra childcare organisation 3. Extra rehearsal 4. The usual admin around a show (marketing / contracts reading / fees paying etc.) 5. Emotional readiness 6. Mental readiness 7. Slight decompression before.. 8. Financial reports, invoices, thanks. I am only out of that phase and jumping head back into my next professional deadline: 1. ACE application submission 2