Here we are again, another year, another chance to change some things and preserve others. Well, for a start, I should not be leaving the writing of this piece until the last minute. And I will send the payment for water and telephone and so on within a day or two, and not have to worry about being cut off – not that I ever have been… not yet.
I will continue drinking only wine, having finally realised, after a year without them, that spirits aren’t actually essential. I will put everything I mean to do in the shared house calendar, not just the ones which concern whoever is staying here – which includes my companion from the Share and Care people, the charity that matches a young person who needs somewhere to live with an older person who needs… well what? It varies, but company and a bit of assistance, and, in my case, help with the irritating computer.
So how should things go in 2017? It may be debated.
I tend to think of things being forbidden or compulsory, but it may be a question of permitting something once, but not as a habit, or some things we’ve always done which is why we’re so sick of them. New Year is where we are glad to face another year in some ways but not others: yes, bring your guitar in but not when we’ve got my talkative cousins; and nobody shall be allowed to do things in the garden but the lass who takes care of it.
One way or another January is the time for assessment and sorting things out in several ways and with good intentions, so I wish you all the best.
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