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Any resolutions?

Posted on 2nd January, 2025

Happy New Year – let’s hope it’s a better one than last year although with Trump becoming president again I think that’s highly unlikely. We’ve got a Labour government, a stable government for a change, but so far they don’t seem to have impressed anyone, even me. They are much better than the last lot – but that’s not a very high bar.

I don’t make resolutions normally but this year because I’ll be eighty in May I have done so.

Resolution one: I’ve decided to pack in as many exciting holidays, excursions and other interesting things as I possibly can before I’m too decrepit to be able to do them any more. I’ve got a second cruise with a friend in April, I’m going to Bath again to stay with another friend in June, and going on a very expensive all-inclusive cruise with Saga with three other writers in August. I’ll also be either going to the RNA awards evening –  I think that unlikely – or to the Boldwood party in May.

Resolution two: I also want to get fitter and thinner and seem to be making headway with those two goals. I’ve already lost two of the four pounds that I put on over Christmas.

Resolution three: I’ve got an unpublished series of books that need updating and probably a bit of rewriting and I’m determined to let them see the light of day if I can persuade my wonderful editor to read them. They aren’t anything like my World War II sagas, my Victorian sagas or my Regency romances.

Apart from that there is nothing else I want to do with this year. Bill Bailey – a UK comedian and musician – said on television the other day that his father, who is ninety-two, said the only difference in his life now is that he has to think twice about buying green bananas. (Think about that one.)

Do you make resolutions and then ignore them? Does anyone actually keeps their resolutions? I’d be interested to hear.

I hope 2025 brings you everything you hope for,

best wishes

Fenella J Miller.