Resolutions 2012

1. Must. Not. Have. Any. More. Pretzels. In. The. House. Ever...
2. Must stop buying vintage Quality Street tins. Its getting silly now...
3. Ditto posters. Even ones that are not massive. I do not have enough walls.
4. Must remember that cleaning CAN be relaxing, de-stressing and CAN involve the whole family.
5. Maybe I should start delegating the cooking too, for the same reasons.
6. Will read more books again, even though magazines are easy visual eye candy.*
7. Will sort my books out so they are grouped properly, instead of bunging new ones into random available spaces.

*Have started John Steinbeck and Robert Capa's 1947 "Russian Journal". Saw some fuss in the press about schools allegedly copping out by setting Steinbeck's mere 6-chapter "Of Mice And Men" to year 10 kids. Michael Gove, Minister for Something To Do With Making Children Cleverer, thinks children should read 50 books a year. That's one a week. Maybe he means short-ish books. I'm not tying either of my kids to chairs to make them "achieve" a novel a week...

Resolutions

Hey ho, it occurred to me that I had posted yonks ago about my new mantelpiece.... here, very belatedly, is said marvel, all fested up. Quite reluctant to take all the sparkly stuff off for another year, but I'm sure there will be plenty of treasures to display on it soon.

Which moves us on to resolutions for 2011:

1. To put more photos on my blog - and even some of things other than my unfinished house!
2. To sort out better lighting for my photos. Maybe even do a bit of photoshoppy stuff?
3. To be a bit more structured with my time. OK, a lot more. Waste less time snoozing on the sofa with magazines, and just generally keep on top on my life.
4. Keeping on top of my life shall entail seeing friends more, and generally trying to roll out of the house before 3pm.
5. To make no more resolutions, but I just like odd numbers, so hey...

Happy Resolving