Happy New Year! Round these parts, the tree is outside ready for the dump, the decorations safely hoisted back into the loft and we are emerging from our festive cocoon, like small, blinking animals. It's a funny time of year - partly concerned with looking forward and plans for the next 12 months, but with a slight nod to the year past, and perhaps a little introspective moment, thinking about how it all went.
As the years pass, I find it gets more difficult to pigeonhole a year as a good one, or a bad one. Life is too muddy to categorize definitively - there's no neat metric to assess your performance or score your added value. I think I struggled with that when I first stopped work to stay home with children - office life is so cut and dried. Did you meet your key performance indicators? How much bonus did they earn you? Everything reduced to stark numbers on a spreadsheet.
But all these years down the line, I think I've made my peace with vagueness. I'm happier with a general intention type of resolution rather than a hard and fast one. Perhaps I have finally twigged that life is not a test, with a score to be earned and judged by. But it's still nice to see a little progress, so I was happy to find photographic evidence of last year's resolution to eat more delicious food.
2014? It was yummy, thanks!
Happy New Year Ali. Glad we managed to meet up in 2014. Hope it happens again this year. I'm looking at your 2014 nosh wistfully x
Posted by: Emma | 01 January 2015 at 23:43
On the basis of those photographs I'd say last year was a good one. Happy New Year!
Posted by: just Gai | 02 January 2015 at 00:20
Wishing you another year of good food, good friends and other lovely things Ali.
Posted by: Gina | 02 January 2015 at 09:58
Looks like it was a pretty good year. I wishing you and yours much happiness for 2015. CJ xx
Posted by: CJ | 02 January 2015 at 10:35
wishing you a tasty and delicious 2015 Ali x
Posted by: driftwood | 02 January 2015 at 10:51
I hope that 2015 will be a measurably good year for you! xx
Posted by: Amy at love made my home | 02 January 2015 at 23:13
Happy New Year Ali. You did much better than me in the good food department.
Posted by: Megan | 03 January 2015 at 10:10
It seems to me that you had a very good year. I wish you similar this year.
Posted by: Toffeeapple | 03 January 2015 at 12:34
You are right, other adjectives to describe years are definitely called for. I will say my 2014 was also yummy. Also busy (because taxi driver is not an adjective).
Posted by: Kirsten | 03 January 2015 at 17:52
Happy New Year!
Much to my husband's disappointment, I made no such resolution.
Posted by: UK lass in US | 04 January 2015 at 17:50
mmm, looks like it was a delicious year x
Posted by: Julie | 08 January 2015 at 09:09
Happy New Year! And may 2015 be as tasty.
Posted by: Annie @ knitsofacto | 08 January 2015 at 17:31