And so here we are in 2009! Happy New Year to you all.

So what are the thoughts of this year already? Well, it now seems a bloody long time ago since the millennium! I spent time 10 years ago trying to patch everything in site in case all the dates failed. Not that we thought it would, but that's what everybody thought would happen. But i look back and wonder just what has changed in that time, and it's a lot, but you would expect that in 9 years I guess. What has surprised me is that it is 9 years!

I mean, in that time I've bought and sold my first property, bought another and still trying to sell it, moved house a fair few times and moved to a new country (I treat England as separate, after all I still get treated as a foreigner at times, though people now mostly complain about the Poles and the SA). Work has been varied and interesting, with good progression through the ranks. I've got married, seen my brother get married and most of my good friends (mainly in the last year!) and will no doubt see them all with kids soon before the decade is out.

Time flies...