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A Routine Reward

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I don't think I could ever cope with going into an office and doing the same job day after day. Getting the same train every morning, having the same start time, the same finish time, and working with the same people every day. I admire people who do that. I have to say that I am sometimes jealous of the security it brings. Just as when one is visiting a foreign clime on holiday, there is a certain comfortable familiarity about going somewhere you been before.  We've just come back from a beautiful week away in Turkey to a place we last visited ten years ago. We expected it to have changed and indeed it had. And yet there was enough familiarity for us to feel immediately welcomed. To surround us with a little bit of a comfort blanket from which to explore what was different for better or worse.  Sometimes our working lives change. Things that we rely on disappear and we’re forced to accept new circumstances. Just as in our work in the rehearsal room, change is nearly a