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1. What have you done in 2005 that you’d never done before?
Took a ‘great train journey of the world’ across the southern alps (twice - there and back again)
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t make new year’s resolutions
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No, well not that I’m aware of. My cousin Faith’s little girl is growing so fast now though and it only seems like 5 minutes since she had her
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, I do tend to keep people at arms length these days though (to try and stop me bing hurt - how selfish)
5. What countries did you visit?
England (well I do live in Wales), New Zealand, Germany, Scotland - not necessarily in that order. Oh is Shell Island a country? 
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
A little support in work
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
10 July, I went to the British GP (for free - helicopter ride was the most memorable thing about the day). 1 December, my old boss was ‘let go’ at work
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Helping set up a charity PLC to help with the community project I’m involved in (I never thought I’d be a company director)
9. What was your biggest failure?
Perhaps not resigning, but I guess we’ll see how things go in the early part of 2006
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not a bad year health-wise, just a couple of Menieres attacks
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My new smart car
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Pass
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Lots of my work colleagues and the management for letting them get away with it
14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent (no, not that kind), debt repayment, car (see 11)
15. What did you get excited about?
Going on holiday to New Zealand very early on (I plan going again late next year)
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Oh I dunno, I know Keane is old hat but that was the touring album for NZ and will remain etched upon my memory from 2005 for this reason
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?. Probably a bit sadder but I’m determined to start 2006 with a better ‘attitude’
ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter - I’ve put on over half a stone of the five that I lost - back to the diet in January!
iii. richer or poorer? I have slightly more ‘ready cash’ - does that make me richer?
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Job-hunting
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Crying at work and letting it all get to me
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent it mostly alone, like most of my christmasses recently. That’s (at least partly) through choice
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
No, but I have high hopes for next year
23. How many one-night stands?
Just one
24. What was your favourite TV program?
Lost or Desperate Housewives (do I have to choose?)
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No, I don’t hate anyone
26. What was the best book you read?
Sting’s autobigraphy (a present from Christmas 2004 that I saved for my holiday). It didn’t start out promisingly but it was cracking
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Aziraphale introduced me to Kathryn Williams who is absolutely awesome (and has probably sprogged by now)
28. What did you want and get?
Peace and quiet (not too difficult where I live)
29. What did you want and NOT get?
A fella
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
I didn’t really do much cinema this year, I guess the most memorable was Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 43 this year, it was a Wednesday so I worked and then went to Slimming World in the evening
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Getting th
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Oh, I did have a txt off a mate last night - it was from about 11.30 am (though I didn’t put my phone on until about 9pm).
He was sat in his car looking out across the snow swept north sea, wishing he was looking across to Stewart Island. He says he doesn’t want to spend next xmas bored in Alnwick.
Well I’m up for heading off to New Zealand for Christmas 2006 
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Ingrate
So, Christmas is over for another year. Christmas Day wasn’t so bad - had a bit of a lie-in followed by a leisurely breakfast listening to The Archers (just like any other Sunday then). I can’t believe Betty’s dead! Actually it did bring back bad memories as my mum died just over a week before Christmas (though quite a long time ago now). I remember sitting there on Christmas Day 1986 not wanting to open gifts from under the tree and then seeing the gifts that were there for her, and bursting into tears of course. Anyway, back to this year. Went to the pub and had a couple of drinks. Karen, the landlord’s daughter, was there with her seven kids (actually it may have only been six, I didn’t see any sign of John her eldest) who are all lovely. The youngest, Rowan who’s three, was dressed as an elf with ’Santa’s Little Helper’ written across the back. Cute. Came back, had a big cooked dinner about 4.30 and promptly fell asleep. Thankfully woke in time for Dr Who, though I was vaguely disappointed by this ‘Christmas special’. I realised this morning that though I’d spoken to several friends and family on the day itself I hadn’t actually spoken to a single person yesterday. I’ve decided that it would be a nice day to walk up Moel Famau, so I’m going to have breakfast and sod off out of the flat.
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It only comes once a year...
...or does it? Meh, haven’t made an entry on here in an age - no particular reason. Anyway, I feel quite ‘flat’. Work is horrible - we were ‘bought out’ at the end of September, and though it’s ostensibly the same company (same buildings, same people) it feels different. As though, to me, the heart and soul has been ripped out of the place. I’ve been through rough patches there before, but I think this time I really need to think about getting off my butt and finding somewhere else to go. Must dust my CV off over the Christmas break. I found my eyes getting moist as I drove along listening to this this morning... “Patience” It’s like a conversation, where no-one stops to breathe Is it my imagination, or did God already leave the table? Such destruction, and pure white castles in the sand No time for introduction With all that money changing hands And the satellite says, “Take a look at all we have” But the old man says, “You want my family, for your liberty...I can’t do that.” Look into the eyes of any patient man Whether they be amber, green or blue, There’s a piece of God staring back at you But they see our children, and the old folk fend for themselves They see our broken women On imaginary shelves But the satellite says, “Won’t you people look at all we have? Don’t you want it? Can’t you see the things that you lack?” Children in his arms, he turns his back.