Earlier this year I wrote a play in a day. With science week approaching and a need to adapt our current spooky offerings into something more... educational... I landed on Flux. A play about change. Little did I know that its development would lead into that theme so much.

This morning I woke up my daughter early so we could drop my wife into work and take the car together on a journey to Kent, where I was scheduled to direct the first day of Flux rehearsals. 

As we passed (slowly) over the QE2 bridge my daughter announced that she required the toilet. I quickly altered our route to the nearest supermarket. 

It turns out that, for whatever reason, Sainsbury's in Dartford doesn't have a customer toilet. But fortunately my daughter decided that her need was more of a fleeting fancy rather than a pressing need. It would have been nice to know this before the 20 minute detour, but such is parenting. 

Unfortunately, at this point, I now needed the toilet. So I got us all the way to Maidstone where I just about made it into a far more sensible Sainsbury's. 

When I arrived there I found I had a text suggesting that my presence might not have been needed after all - one of the cast would be off with sickness in the family.

I guess change is inevitable. Better embrace it.