Happy New Year lovely PPUKers!

[skier-hughes]

Happy new year everyone, I've passed from middle aged to older person over the break
My aim is to go from no bathrooms to two this year
Lose 1 stone
Cycle to more meetings
Raise £500 for a local charity in my 50th year

Hold a big birthday bash in June, either 23/24 or 30/1

 

[Nigel Watts]

Having spent the whole of New Year's day getting very grumpy working on tax returns and similar matters, and having recently received news of my mother-in-law's death, my resolution is to try to keep healthy and stay cheerful.

Gilding sounds a great idea. I have always wanted to have a go at this so I will be very interested to hear how it goes.

 

[vicky whitworth]

Blimey, I regarded my 50th year as just about passing into middle age - old age starts about 70 these days if you can stay reasonably fit and healthy. My dad's 84 this year and still goes hill walking in Snowdon, dances 5 times a week, and is in the process of fitting himself a new kitchen (although he did start that in May last year and still has no sink or work tops :shock: )

Good luck everyone with the resolutions, aspirations, goals and challenges. I'm up for a half marathon this Summer so will have to up my fitness and actually do some training for a change. Now where's that last bit of Christmas cake - tonight is the big 'eat-it-all-up' feast!

And our joyous start to the New Year is that the septic tank is blocked and over-flowing all down the garden

 

[Feltwell]

Blimey - with deaths in the family, overflowing septic tanks and collapsing outbuildings I shall count myself very lucky that discovering I've got mice in the garage is the worst that has happened at Feltwell Towers - well, so far at least!

Ouch! Poor Robin. It could have been much worse though - at least it was an outbuilding, and I presume it didn't fall on anything of value or anyone (of value! ).

Such a shame we didn't have advance warning, I bet we could all have thought of people to nominate to be standing near a few tons of unstable masonry.

Damn - my letter to Mr Cameron, urging him to visit one of his most fanatical supporters in person in order to help boost morale in the colonies, clearly got delayed in the Christmas post :wink:

 

[skier-hughes]

Vicky, I hae no idea why they are increasing the age to collect your old age pension, but saying at 50 you are classifeid as an older person????????

 

[Penners]

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda Pawb

That's easy for you to say. :?

My resolutions were simple.......pay particular heed to Penners' sage advice.

I'm on to your evil plan, FW. You just want to make sure that you can blame me for everything that happens to you in 2012.

we came home this evening and found part of the outbuildings next to the house had collapsed

Starting, presumably, with this event!

Seriously, though, jolly bad luck, FW. But perhaps you should concentrate on the pluses - at least there was nobody in the building at the time.