Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

It's that time of year when we've all been looking backwards at the highs and lows of 2014 and forwards to the great year we're all going to have in 2015, kind of a time to put things into perspective.

It's been a big year for me with lots of firsts, lots of travelling and a significant birthday so lots of celebrations. I've also, as you'll know if you read this blog regularly, had a big setback in the form of a monster case of RSI which has certainly been challenging. Plenty to reflect on.

But, you know, I got to thinking about my special moments of this past year and although some of the big ones were pretty spectacular – watching shooting stars from the top of a sand dune in the Sahara was very cool and watching my daughter at her first red carpet premiere in LA was really special – those kind of experiences are the exception, rather than the rule. Life is generally made up of smaller moments, crossing something off that to-do list, having a meal out with friends, remembering to exercise (always a challenge, that one!) And, bearing in mind what the trek to Everest Base Camp taught me, acknowledging and enjoying those is really living life to the full.

The start of a squeaky New Year is full of possibilities that we can achieve in these coming months what we didn't manage to last year – it's an exciting time! So, I'm looking backwards to go forwards,  building on the parts of my work in progress I didn't mess up, revising and editing like mad currently. I may not actually have said the words 'my New Year's resolution is . . .' but it amounts to the same thing and it means I can dip into my chocolate drawer without feeling guilty.