Welcome 2022

Waves crashing against a sea wall
A new calendar year marks the start of another lap around our celestial star. What will this year bring? Who knows, as that would just be guessing and I'm not one for making big predictions.

I’m happy to be greeted on this fine morning by the beautiful low winter sunshine and I’ll take that as a good omen. I won’t be setting any resolutions as I find them whimsical and pointless, why should the start of a new calendar year be the point at which we decide to make a change? Personally, I like to have a good solid, tangible thing to achieve or problem to solve – and those appear throughout the year, not just on new years day.

Having said that, there are probably lots of things I’d like to do more of this year, which shouldn’t be too hard given the lack of much activity over the last couple of years. First on my non-existent list is to get out of this chair and out on my bike.

Hope you all have a great year, may it be filled with good stuff.

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