I mean properly listening with no other distractions.

Wife and I spent the best part of yesterday tidying out the office – which had become the house dumping ground – and it is now a genuinely pleasant place to sit and listen to music. Not background music, not music with kids shouting over the top of it, not music from the (compromised) hi-fi set up in the lounge. Just me, a single malt, a great CD and a half decent hi-fi. It was absolute bliss and I feel like a missing piece of me has been rediscovered. 🙂