Backwards In High Heels

Don't Forget Your Acorns

A new look for the new year (the blog, not me). It all looks a bit small so perhaps you should sidle up to the screen a bit more...but it is fresh and a change!

I will not be making new year resolutions. Indeed the charity MIND have said it can be detrimental to your mental health if you do and as I am quite capable of sending myself doolally by other means I shall agree with their advice.

I will instead look to the positives and strive on with hope in my heart as if I'd swallowed a self help book. Actually, I have recently been converted to the magazine Psychologieswhich is very much about well being and being positive though with the usual happy-clappiness associated with such things removed thus making it palatable for an English woman.

With regards to 'proper' work I am continuing with a number of motorsport projects and am looking forward to a new season with them. I have also just started with a new national race series set to launch this year and with the birth of anything new it is exciting and inspiring.

I will endeavour this year to make sure whilst I'm facilitating other people's dreams I don't forget my own. With work and health problems in the family last year everything was a blur of 'get through the day'.

There was one moment though where I stole five minutes  one day to write a sketch to send to the (new) producer of the radio show I worked with in the past. I desperately didn't want anyone to think I was no longer bothered or had lost interest - that couldn't be further from the truth. I sent the one idea in and it has gone forward to the recording (whether it makes the cut for the broadcast show I will let you know). It was a small chip at the mine face but it is enough to keep me down the pit!

So even if you only have the energy/time/opportunity to plant one acorn this 2009, do it! Who knows what you will harvest further down the line.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone.

I wish you all health, happiness and peace in 2009. If you get those you are wealthy...okay, the gas board won't accept them as legal tender but trust me they are true wealth.

From every angle we are told how awful 2009 will be. It may be the effect of Pollyanna being shown on tv today but I live in hope that sometimes the worst of times brings out the best of people.

One thing I would like to see, or rather hear, is a change of vocab' in 2009. I'm so bored of 'chav', 'gay' and the continual removal of vowels by the under 16s. I would like to see some words I haven't heard in recent years make a comeback, notably: cadswallop, rapscallion, twaddle, huzzah and whither.

And whatever you do, try and do something the Daily Mail would brand as beyond the boundaries of taste and decency once a week. You'll feel so much better...

Enough already!

On many levels this year has been a crap one for me. It's not to say there haven't been positive moments, I am grateful for my lot and realise I have a remarkably blessed life compared to so many.

There's nothing worse than a moaner but just as I get round one corner this year, another grubby one is waiting! But I am not alone in this - in fact just about everyone I know is looking forwrd to the back of 2008 and its credit crunch, illnesses and stresses. SO I think many people I know will identify with this: