That was (another) year that was...
...and frankly I'm bloody glad to see the back of it. I've been racking my brains to say anything good at all about 2024, anything even vaguely positive, and have come up with very little. So let's try listing my thoughts, in no particular order, good and bad. --------------------------------------------------------------- Good Stuff. Well, the Tories were voted out of office. Finally. After 14 years of ruining the country, incompetence and lying. In a landslide. Their demise also got rid of no-marks like Hancock, and Truss, and Johnson, and a whole list of other crook s, chancers and dead-weights who no-one (apart from their families, probably ) cares about. Good riddance to them all. In came Keir Starmer and Labour, full of plans to improve the lot of the ordinary man in the street (rather than fleece them like the Nasty Party did). Hurrah. I am still alive, and healthy. Cancer free (with the caveat that I am due a further check up in January). I'...