Happy New Year 2024

It’s been a strange year, well, for me it has although I’m not complaining, honestly. Now it’s almost time to welcome a new year, 2024 and also the time when lots of folks make resolutions. I don’t though, it’s not for me, to make promises to myself to lose weight, take up a new hobby or even be nice to everyone I meet. The last one, I do try to be nice, but some people, well, I won’t say anymore.

How I Saw 2023

The way I see it, to do any of the things above, you can do them whenever you want. It doesn’t have to be on January 1st. For example, I could go on a diet on October 31st and break it the next day on November 1st and I will have managed to pass from one month to another without succumbing to temptation. If I had done that on the first day of the year, then I would have only given it a day’s trial. Do you get my drift?

Ladies, It’s A Leap Year

2024 is a leap year too, which means all you single ladies can ask the man in your life to marry you. Good luck with that. If I remember one thing from 2023, it’s the amount of rain and grey days we have had since June. June was quite a ‘scorcher’ here and everyone thought “this is it, summer’s arrived, get the shorts and Hawaiin t-shirts out, light those BBQs and here we go.” Then came July and woosh and it’s hardly stopped raining since. I was hoping to paint the fence this year too, but the rain put the kibosh on that, said quietly under his breath.

A Spot Of Rain

The problem with so much dismal weather is that you find yourself staying indoors quite a lot and that always ends with “Oh, switch the TV on dear.” Re-runs of Bargain Hunt or Celebrity Antiques with the same old ‘tat’ being passed around the country, re-purchased then re-sold. I suppose it’s all for a good cause. Then there’s the Repair Shop! I might seem a little cynical, but how much of that stuff ends up on the likes of eBay? Someone should take a pair of broken false teeth in there and spin a yarn that they were ‘Grannie’s Sunday Best, she only wore them to church’ and see where it would lead. Can you imagine, “Here’s Ted, our resident denture repairer, he’ll have them back to looking brand new. What will you do with them?”

Muppetts And Puppets

I have a fancy dress party to attend on New Year’s Eve under the title of ‘Muppets and Puppets’ at the local pub. I’m going as someone called Sam Eagle!! The mind boggles. There’s quite a few going, Scooby Doo, The Swedish Chef, Kermit the Frog, Fozzy Bear, The Honey Monster, Animal, Mr Blobby and so many more. It crossed my mind that because copious amounts of alcohol will be consumed I just hope the room doesn’t erupt into a free-for-all all. Just picture it in your mind, a baroom brawl breaking out and it’s made up of all the above characters! I doubt very much it will happen, but you never know.

Well, it just leaves me to wish everyone the happiest and most prosperous New Year for 2024. Enjoy, don’t drink too much, don’t eat too much, but above all, have fun and enjoy.

If you’re in the UK, here’s a website that lists various events going on around the country