A Happy New Year to All Our Readers

(If we have any left)

This country has a somewhat brutal attitude towards public holidays. If they fall on a weekend, it’s just hard luck; you don’t get an extra day off in lieu, so today is just a normal Monday, back to work for everyone and the New Year celebrations seem just like a normal weekend. With fireworks.

The turn of the year is a traditional time for looking forward and for resolutions. I don’t do resolutions but I really am going to try and post more regularly than I have been over the past few months. I’ve missed blogging and I’ve missed regularly reading a lot of my favourite blogs and discovering new ones. We have managed to run our business with one less member of staff this past year and we have managed, but naturally that makes more demands on our time, especially in the run-up to Christmas, which is far and away our busiest time.

Looking forward to the new year, there are changes afoot: Some imposed on us, like the fact that we are once again alone in our own home, and others where we have made ourselves. I have decided that in 2012, my life is going to branch out in a whole new and exciting direction, but more of that a little later on.

With the passing of Half Nekkid Thursday, there isn’t the same impetus to have a picture ready for posting on a Wednesday night, but I hope we will have the time, and the room and the privacy to take some more photos and post them from time to time.

To our old friends: Thanks for sticking with us. To new friends: Welcome here. I hope we can provide you with something to amuse, titillate and stimulate. Watch this space over the next few months because it’s going to be an interesting year.