Happy New Year!
January 4, 2012
Well well, 2012 is off to a running start. Happy New Year to all of you and I hope this year treats everyone brilliantly 
I start with some good news and some bad. On Christmas Day the Justgiving campaign to raise money for Cancer Research because of Bronia’s illness topped £579, so we more than made the target Thank you all very very much for your generosity and help during the run up to Christmas, this couldn’t have happened without you. The bad news is that Bronia passed away on the 23rd of December after a short but very determined battle with lung cancer.
The lesson I take into 2012 then is that life is awfully short. Bronia loved life, and lived hers to the fullest. I normally don’t do traditional new year’s resolutions – instead I always try to do ten things each year that I have never done before, from simple things like trying a new dish, to things like visiting a new country or learning a new skill. This year I’m adding a wee something. This year I’m going to consciously live in the moment and enjoy each moment. I make the (common) mistake of tending to live a little in the future and a little in the past, and don’t spend as much time as I should in the here and now. So from now on, I will rectify that. I am so thankful for my friends, family, partner, course, home, cats and general situation, and I want to enjoy it as I live it. Life is short, I don’t want to miss a thing.
Here’s to 2012.
