For a long time Alister has been wanting a chance to win something - Claire gets quite a lot of oppurtunity with her dancing, but he hasn't really had much of a chance.

So when Mum wanted to enter him into a "competitions society" music competition in Gisborne, we thought it would be a great idea.

He entered 3 categories in the under 10 years age group, a total of about 5 minutes playing time (and 2 days driving time). We had no idea what standard the other kids would be playing at - and some of them would be a year older than him...

The competition lasted several days, we watched quite a bit of the other stuff that was going on, and gradually over a period of several days...

...HE WON ALL 3 CATEGORIES. It was very exciting!