One of positivity, and it has been long overdue. After a frustrating and infuriating day spent dealing with idiots, it was heartening to see a few lights at the end of a series of tunnels. Our forthcoming move to Flitwick which at times today looked to be off, is a source of a bit of optimism for me. I will have my own dedicated office come study, which is very near the kitchen. Our plans are such that we will need to be a lot more organised, and as I do the lion’s share of the cooking, it is handy to have an office near the Kitchen. There is a local and affordable Gym. Now this might make one or two people chuckle, but since I gave up smoking over 5 years ago, I have been out of shape! Starting smoking is not an option, so I am keen to try fitness! I will be two minutes walk from a mainline Railway Station, which opens up my horizons somewhat in terms of my writing, and research. I will be able to visit the old haunts of my family, and the old family house in Islington in which a long line of envelope folders and imbeciles lived. We will be debt free. I have to keep repeating that….Debt free! I got into debt pretty much on my first working day. That was the 17th September 1984. Pretty much 26 years of debt wiped out. I’m not sure quite how that is going to feel, but I feel sure I will report on it at length.
I have just noticed that whilst writing this post, that my Birthday has gone and crept up on me. Well Happy Birthday to me. I realised half way through this year that I had mistakenly been telling everyone that I was still 42, rather than 43…I now realise that I am far too old, and will be deliberately continuing this trend in the near future. 44 sounds quite old to me come to think of it. This fits in with my current mid life crisis, and I shall continue to get some mileage from it I feel sure. So my last year has been a good one overall. Old friendships rekindled, big decisions made, good drama of the right kind, and a little bad drama of the wrong kind. Not bad. Here’s to the next one dear reader.