New Year’s Resolutions

12 Blogs of Christmas: #7 Last year I set my New Years resolutions on this blog. They were not successful… unless you count 25% as a success rate. So, with an aim of improving on that record, here I go with resolutions for 2011… Blogging. This was my only success of last year, I promised [...]

Season’s Greetings

It’s been a funny old year; turning forty and all. But I just wanted to take the opportunity wish each and every one of you readers… whether you avidly click here every day, or just read the first few lines on the Facebook status update, or follow the occasional link on Twitter, or even whether [...]

On The First Day Of Christmas

The twelve days of Christmas, I believe, are the twelve days that run from Boxing Day to the 6th January. I’m not sure quite where the gift giving that is reflected in the song of the same name originates and I’ve never really heard of anybody who would go through the trouble of working out [...]

The Last Post

Don’t panic! It’s not the “last post” really. In fact, it’s more like a first post but it does mark an ending because I am, by all accounts, officially and despite all efforts to avoid it, forty years old (with due emphasis on the “old” bit). A year ago, I started blogging on this site [...]

It Was A Funny Old Day

“All is quiet on New Year’s Day. A world in white gets underway. I want to be with you, be with you night and day. Nothing changes on New Year’s Day.” U2, New Year’s Day, 1983 Day 2 of twenty-ten was just a series of small events. After getting up late, Mrs F and I [...]

I Resolve To Call You Up

“Do I have to tell the story of a thousand rainy days since we first met? It’s a big enough umbrella but it’s always me that ends up getting wet” The Police, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, 1981 So, 2010 is upon us. Time to resolve things. Here’s my list… To Get Fit. [...]

Ring Out The Old

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850 As the end of the noughties are imminent and, I assume, the “teenies” approach, it is time for reflection on the year [...]

The Best TV of the Decade

“Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy, Oh Man! Wonder if he’ll ever know he’s in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?” David Bowie, Life on Mars, 1971 Yesterday was one of those inbetween days that rest betwixt Christmas and New Year when you really have no idea [...]

Oh, It’s The SS Madame de Pompadour

“My Dear Doctor, The path has never seemed more slow and yet I fear I am nearing its end. Reason tells me that you and I are unlikely to meet again, but I think I shall not listen to reason. I have seen the world inside your head and know that all things are possible. [...]