I’m starting to get to that time of the year when I am marking the last time I will do certain things in 2025. To be fair, plenty of those have already happened – for example, I don’t expect to be planting tomatoes or wearing shorts (both months in the past) – but the advent of Christmas means they are becoming more obvious. For example, last concert band rehearsal tonight (and one more gig with CSWO on Thursday) or my last day in the office (also Thursday).

I’ll be back to regular rehearsals with all three levels of Charnwood Concert Bands at the start of next term but I won’t be so frequently working with the IT team at Loughborough University. I hope to keep some association with them but I’m starting a new job with Resound Worship / the Song and Hymn Writers Foundation at the beginning of January. My role will be another part time one but as a home-based web application developer and I’m looking forward to getting my webdev skills sharpened up by regular use.

I suppose that makes this particular end of term feel a bit more poignant. Each day we step into what is unknown but, for me, this is one of those points when I know more significant changes are afoot.