Since it is now February and I am no longer in Wantage, I have been trying to make some progress with my New Year Resolutions. Some of these have been going better than others. Buying a laptop was achieved before the new year even began, because Babel did a rather wondrous thing and bought one for me I love my new present so much that I occasionally just want to stroke it – perhaps the reason that it is now covered in finger prints. My aim this week was to buy a duster to clean it with, but I have failed most spectacularly. Does anyone have any ideas where I could buy a nice sort of duster? I’ve looked in all the homeware departments I can think of, and no one seems to be selling them (more…)

Having said that I wasn’t going to review my year in a serious manner, I have been unable to resist the temptation to look up my new year’s resolutions and find out what they actually were. The result does not make pretty reading (more…)

Nine days into the New Year, I thought it might be time to reflect on how many of my resolutions (if any!) I’ve managed not to break. (more…)