Days like today really make me appreciate English weather. It is supposed to be Winter but outside it was more like mid to late Spring. I’m not the biggest fan of the sun, but it was pleasantly warm with a gentle breeze. I hope we have more days like this coming. Walking to work and during lunch time was a pure pleasure. You can see for yourself on the photos.
Being one year older maybe isn’t the best thing to be cheering about, however I definitely had a great time this Saturday. One of my presents was the Canon G10 camera, so you can expect plenty of photos in the near future. We have spent most of the day in London doing a bit of shopping, finished of with a nice meal. I also got two books: “Darwin’s Island” and “How Not To Write a Novel”… very appropriate indeed. 
Surprisingly the trip to London was quite fruitful and I ended up with a new bag and a fancy pair of boots…
There is just one minor problem with the shoes. Until I got home I haven’t realized I have no clue how to clean them - the pattern is made of a soft meshy material. And they come with a label - avoid mud and water… Help!h
New year, new month, a time to start over. Typically people make resolutions for the coming year, which they typically do not hold for long. I guess I am not much different, and again promised myself to eat less and exercise more. Hopefully this year will prove to be a bit more successful in that department.
Other than such down to earth commitments, I hope to find this year very busy. My partner and I currently have two little projects in the works, which hopefully will be launching in the coming months. Finally I promised myself to make one more commitment: stop talking about writing a book, and write one instead.
Going through other people’s resolutions I stumbled upon the following at David Rogers blog:
I finish today, and this year, with a question I have recently read onFreetheDiva:-
A bank credits your account each morning with £86,400. It carries over no balance to tomorrow. Every evening you lose the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do?(I converted the $ to £ as the pound needs all the help it can get at the moment!)
Well most people would withdraw every penny they could before they disappeared, and invest them as best they could. Yet everyday we are credited with 86,400 seconds, which disappear when the day is over. Most of us squander those seconds, let them slip by as if we have a limitless supply. Remember, if you fail to “invest” them, its your loss.
I wanted to become a writer since I was a little kid. Even before I dreamt to be a programmer, and just after the ideas of becoming a singer (that idea quickly got trashed by anyone in range of my vocals…). Maybe this is a good year to try to make one of my dreams come true. As the example above shows, time is precious, and is not a renewable resource.
One thing I have not foreseen in my childhood aspirations was that I would end up abroad. This obviously does widen the target audience, however makes the task a lot more challenging on so many levels.
Just to start with my grammar and spelling that needs constant checking. Moreover vocabulary diversity and appropriate register might require more research, and conscious effort, than a native English-speaker would have to put in.
Despite all that I still would like to give it a go. I do like having a bit of a challange and who knows maybe something good will come out of it. The worst thing that could happen is me improving my overall language skills while failing horribly at producing an interesting novel…
After years of blogging here and there under many names it is finally time to grow up and own up to my own name (even despite all the nasty pronunciation problems it has caused since I came to the UK…).
Shedding the fake anonimity does not necesarily mean going dead serious though, and as this will after all be a personal blog you can expect serious opinions, as well as random banter and artsy stuff.
One of several things this blog is supposed to help me achieve is to return to the more frequent writing habits I used to exhibit before work overtook my day to day life.
