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So, does anyone have a particular favourite that is stated every year but never achieved?  Mine is usually "do more running" but never really gets done in any kind of useful continuity.

Or ones that have been stated last year and achieved?

Or other interesting ones?

This year I want to :
1   Improve my french (for when I live there and have a little farm with animals and lots of veg and a vineyard)
2   Learn guitar - (anyone got a spare one gathering dust anywhere that they would like to exchange for a cash gift?)
3   Re: above French resolution - Stop excessive dreaming

;D

I'll give it some thought... actually that might be it!
::)

Possibly ( ;D) to finish EVERYTHING I sta

To try to make more hours in the day so I can get everything done ;D ;D ;D

I am going to stop telling porkies.

Well that did not last long did it ;D

I could give up jaffa cakes.  nah

Give up drinking   nah, I have cut down, I know when I have had enough when my wife starts looking attractive.

I shall just give up giving things up.

I have given up so much over the years, the time has come to start taking things up again.

ACE, as long as you don't give up posting on here and brightening up our days! :) :)

I sort of decided to improve my socialibility, I'm pretty anti-social as it is and now have moved my studio to my home so could easily (and happily) end up being a hermit. So my resolution is to chat to, in a meaningful way, at least a couple people a week - maybe make actual acquaintances!

Other resolutions are a ton of work related ones and the allotment of course.

Sally - you could Freecycle (yahoo group) and Loot (loot.com online) for a guitar maybe?

Tina.

Mine is to really , really, really, try to loose some weight for our holiday.

Quote from: rosebud on December 30, 2006, 18:23:27
Mine is to really , really, really, try to loose some weight for our holiday.

If you are anything like my OH and mother inlaw - they start a diet every monday ;D

diets are cr*p, I've just started eating properly again, went a bit mad over christmas, just gone back so should be o.k. after a few weeks, roll on salad days
:D

Rosebud, me too!  Went for my asthma check and had a long lecture from the nurse, so I have promised to start in the New Year. :(

Not to drink so much!(another g&t? thank you dear!)

Not really...just planning to continue living each day to it's fullest and smiling a lot!

Happy New Year folks!  ;D

Quote from: EJ - Emma Jane on December 30, 2006, 22:50:09
living each day to it's fullest and smiling a lot!

What a wonderful philosophy ...

To stop being grumpy...........are you listening...ya not are ya...don't know why i bother. >:(

Will let you all know mine in say three months time.

my resolution is to get a six pack, you know it won't happen though don't you!

To be more decisive... or was it less ambivalent...?

Simply to enjoy doing what I CAN still do and not lose my bloody temper every bloody time I'm bloody-well defeated by yet another bloody thing that I bloody-well used to be able to bloody-well do and bloody-well can't bloody-well do any bloody more.

It's not going to be easy..........

To open up and use some of the 20 odd recipie books I have! LOL!

Today is Ragout of Chicken from the fat free range (weeellll, I have to seem willing on New Year's Day  ;D )

Redecorate the house no matter what (illness, picking up the wrong pot of paint, family, etc.) gets in the way.

Mine is to do everything I enjoy...... or could be enjoy everything that I do??? ::) ;) Which is mostly the case anyway: both cases in fact.

And to stop before I'm exhausted.

And to go to bed when I'm tired....

And maybe to think about myself a bit more often instead of always thinking about other people first?

Cor this is getting dangerously close to the truth  ;D

I don't usually bother as i'm not what you'd usually call a 'completer finisher' but i'm gonna try to eat more healthily and to cook meals from scratch (hopefully using lottie produce later in the year!) rather than packet/jar stuff. Also, i must find myself a decent job this year, not one that i get bored of & want to leave after a year lol x

Havn't bothered with New Year resolutions for about forty years. Doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference :D.

Think mine should be to spend less time on web forums, especially this one, but can't see it happening!

my new year res is to read all the forums on this site so I can grow super veg :) :) ;D

Robert. Thanks for the reminder..as soon as I get rid if this cold the pasting table and brushes will be out. Told myself I will decorate the whole bungalow again (last time 2003)

Grandma. Your post could be an echo of my thoughts ;D When I can no longer do certain jobs I always end up saying to the children " Huh, I could have eat that job for breakfast 10 years ago!!" what a stupid thing to say but I do get frustrated when I have to ask for help. Bless 'em (the children) they never let me down.

You're not the only one having to put off the redecorating; I've been sitting cursing most of the holiday because of a bug that was stopping me getting on with it. I'm going to end up doing a lot of it on weekends now.

Hi all, Happy and Prosperous New Year.

My resolution for 2007 is to acknowledge what is happening to my hip joints,
to talk to friends and family about the pain and the stiffness that has got steadily worse over the last eighteen months, to see the GP to get checked out and to start making lifestyle adjustments.

Anybody got any tips? how to dig when your legs just don`t want to? how to weed a patch when you find you struggle to stand up again? Do people just hoe lots?  I`m already taking note of the mulching discussions. I have some container planting and lots of permanent planting.

How does anyone here get round these problems? Some days I feel like I did a days work just walking to the site, but I`m not about to quit my plots.

Col

Hi, Col
we have the same sort of challenges, so we don't dig, our beds are raised 18-20", we mulch everything we can,
i have a kneeler thingy with arms so I can push myself up and a hand hoe that ray made for me
I also use a twirly thing for weeding
don't blame you , don't give up,it's the only thing that keeps us, sort of , sane
here's to a warmer, healthier new year  :)

Robert. I do have the luxury of being retired.

Columbus. Really sorry to hear about your hip problems. Especially at your young age. Late husband was crippled with arthritis in every joint EXCEPT his hips but he was in his early 60's when first real signs. It amazed me how he adapted and managed to do certain things. Do make sure and get as much advice as you can, if you are not satisfied ask for a second opinion. I wish you luck and as painfree as you can be.
Best wishes Lorna.

Thanks all,

I haven`t seen a bed raised more than six inches, scaffold planks I guess? I will get one of those kneeler things, thats a good idea. I feel such a twit when I can`t get up. But I get to do a lot of sitting in the sun  ;D

Col

these are made from old pallets, three high, corner posts made out of the posts holding the pallets together, we've been working hard for 15 months to get enough soil in them though, just managed it this winter with the last lot of compost delivered
hope the weather , when it's warmer, helps, it does for me, a bit  :D