Sunday, Happy New Year! As its a Sunday my first act is to weigh myself to see what damage having a cold, not training and festive feasting has done to my weight. I get on the scales and they show me I am 97.2 Kilos an addition of 1.3 kilos. I am of course sad to have put on weight but it is not as bad as it could have been. With that out of the way I make warm drinks for myself and my partner and return to bed to have new year chat and to reflect on the future. I don’t get out of bed until 11 o’clock at least. Sometimes the luxury of rest is the best there is. I get up and start my 2023 with a sturdy bacon sandwich and more coffee. I reload my drugs wallets for the next two weeks and check my pre Christmas to do list. I am gratified to find that it is complete apart from the arrival of one present that is somewhere still in transit. My new 2023 list is going to be short, very short. Its time to shaky a leg and get out of the house for a while.
I drive my partner and I to the local park where we take a turn around the woods and duck pond. Its good to get out and to begin to move again. There is something that is just primal about being outside and noticing things like the higher water levels in the brooks and streams. After our walk I drive us back and I watch a rugby match on TV whilst nibbling fruit. I have a feeling that I shall do much fruit nibbling in this year.
My afternoon drifts into evening and I find myself doing the last of post Christmas admin. This includes a brief peruse of the Moomin books and comics I got for Christmas. There is something very appealing about the stories. A friend of mine who is a philosopher has been known to quote the Moomins as examples of philosophic argument from time to time. As I say they are more than just nice children’s stories. I’m looking forward to some reading time over the next few days.
The evening slips into His Dark Materials to be followed by Happy Valley. Tomorrow the plan is to go to the gym. I have to start over again post cold and now is the as good a time as any to start. After that there is a poem word count to be done and the steps to publishing to be taken.
