New Years Resolutions?

[noviceveggrower]

Don't get me started on them. This coming year I am going to have to shift a few pounds as I don't want to be a fat 40 year old in August.
Then I am going to refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle more. Hopefully this will help me spend less money.
My last thing will be to admit you can't rush mother nature. To try and go with the flow more especially with the weather and not try to rush seeds along.

[Alison]

Never seen the point, I have a couple of friends who are always setting themselves targets and writing lists of aspirational things and they spend the rest of the time cutting themselves up for not achieving them all. If they looked back at what they HAD achieved rather than what they hadn't then they'd be a lot happier.

[Martin H]

I do make resolutions, but I avoid making them measurable.

For example, Mrs H gave me a lovely electronic keyboard yesterday. It's over 36 years since I gave up piano lessons (having passed my Grade III), so I have a resolution this year to learn how to play at least one piano piece to play to the family next Christmas.

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to at least master Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, although secretly I'm hoping my fingers will be up to something a little more advanced! But I know I'll enjoy the process regardless.

[pigletwillie]

Be kind to others for eveyone is fighting a hard battle.

It costs nothing, isnt self centric and can make a big difference to people.

[Alison]

Be kind to others for eveyone is fighting a hard battle.

It costs nothing, isnt self centric and can make a big difference to people.

I'd agree it makes a difference but if people have to wait until Jan 1st to do this then it's a pretty sad world out there and I 100% believe that most people (certainly the ones I meet) try to do this most of the time, thankfully

[veggiechicken]

I agree Alison. Kindness should come naturally, not need a resolution although, I suppose, there are some people who need to make an effort to be more considerate of other's feelings - or if they can't, should at least keep their opinions to themselves.

[bearded bloke]

Spot on Alison

[Mikey]

I don't have resolutions really, I have personal goals and objectives of where I want to be this time next year.

I'm sure a lot of us will say I want to shift a few pounds, I've set myself a simple goal not to be heavier next Christmas than I was this Christmas if I achieve that great, eventually I will be really thin. I think it' a goal I can also aspire to posthumously.
My other goals include, learn to identify and gather 3 more edible mushrooms, I'm working towards st georges, field blewits, and waxcaps this year, for all those fungi aficionado's the latter is definitely an aspirational target...
Finally to become more in tune with nature and to be able to identify more indigenous plant life.

I have other goals and aspirations but, they are for others so only really require my support and good humour.

[Verinda]

I would just like to be a bit more organised and stop loosing things....miracles can happen can't they??

[Mikey]

I would just like to be a bit more organised and stop loosing things....miracles can happen can't they??

That would all depend on what you'd lost V, if it was your marbles like me then I think you're a bit beyond miracles.

[Verinda]

Haha Mikey, marbles gone as well as everything else. I think there's another me in another dimension who's got all my stuff!

[mothhawk]

A New Year's Resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other....

My NYR's are -

1. Stop making lists.
B. Be more consistent.
7. Learn to count.

[Bill HH]

I am giving up smoking. Traditionaly this has lasted about 15 minutes but maybe i can make it to 20 minutes this year.

[Greenleaves]

My NYR's.......not to make any NYR's

[Noosner]

My resolutions this year are:

Life's too short to read all the modern novels that come out. So I'm gonna read more classics. Am already halfway thought Dostoyevsky's 'The Idiot' and it's Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' next.

Life's too short to drink cheap wine except when you have to Am putting my 'wine price ceiling' at the supermarket up to £10 instead of £7. We'll see.