Storytime

I have so many bad habits. Some I won't admit to (smirk) but others...oh dear....I'm afraid I'm the sort of person who, when they buy a packet of mixed fruit...eat all those fake cherries. Every last one. And they are not even real...merely fake sugary impersonators. I also am not the healthiest eater in the world. Most who know me well, know about me and vegetables. (sad story but true) I, alas, also have a sweet tooth. A very sweet tooth, which combined with my love of baking leads to trouble. I am also so very easily distracted. Sunny day...time to garden. Windy day...time to garden. Cold and grey day...you get the idea. I tell myself that gardening is very good exercise..that it brings us one with nature. That it is good for body and soul. And indeed it is...it's also a great tool to use when I SHOULD be doing something else. I also enjoy my crafting, and when I get into it, I don't stop. Too eager to see the end result. Now, n...

First writing group meeting of the year, and after the general 'what I have done on my holidays' we begin the hard task of looking at the new year ahead of us. Firstly though we looked at the year done. That was hard. First question was what worked for us, and why did this work. Hard to do when my first thought was 'nothing'...but of course some things did work. Some things were accomplished, even if they were not major things I was aiming for. So looking back is always a good start to figure out where we want to head for the future. The hard first step is often knowing what we want to focus on. I mean a year is a long time (although for some reason January has scarpered and we are 1/12th of the way through 2015)- so deciding now, this exact second, what we want to spend the rest of those hundreds of days doing, is a very hard task. However, having a general idea of what we are aiming at is a good idea.  The year I had no real set of items to foc...