Helloooooo......thought I best get one post in before the end of the year!

Its been a while since I posted on my blog.....the truth of the matter is that I have not had a moment spare for months and months. 

Back in August I went away for a 2 day break which was suppose to give me time to think of my future.  I had been so stressed for the whole of the year because I just had too much on my plate, before I could spend any time on leisure which to this point is almost "nil".

I have been running a business for almost ten years and decided that enough is enough, that I would tell all my clients that by the end of January I was retiring....that is going to happen, but......I will still be working for one person!!!!  NO never seemed to appear in my vocabulary.  

So, now we are at the end of 2014.  My family came to visit last night armed with late Christmas presents and I received a lovely hamper of Organic Food. 

  Oh yum...all sorts - two packets of minced pies, two chocs, shortbread, mint saunce, basmatic rice, mayonnaise, digestive biscuits, marmalade, chutney, white wine vinegar, honey, marmalade peppercorns, granulated sugar and some free from food too - gluten free xmas pud, fruit loaf, rich fruit cake, cherry bakewell tarts.

What am I planning for 2015.   

1.  Join a local art group - there is one that is only a couple pounds a day (no tutor), just turn up.
2.  Continue to go to a knitting and natter group - really loving this - not that I can talk and knit, and since I don't do knitting at home, I just have to knit and not talk at the group.
3.  Plan and build my retirement home.  Ha - a dream for years - I have lots of sticky notes dotted around the house of design sketches.  Will I achieve it - probably not, but we can all dream.
4.  Use the buses - see how far I can get in a day.
5.  Visit friends by trains and buses - cars stress me out - and I don't like driving long distances.
6.  More weekends away - just love the feel that I can't do anything because I am not there to sort the problems out.
7.  Clear the garden - accumulated junk, that was to be made into something, but never got round to it.
8.  Ebay - love it - I have cleared loads of stuff - over forty years worth, some have been packed in boxes and never seen for years til I got them out dusted off and offered on Ebay.  Gone gone gone....a great feeling and to be honest I can't remember any of it.
9.  Get painting - all my projects in the garage just waiting....
10. Another trip to Australia to see family......no....to see Australia.  Really want to start from Perth and travel on the train to Sydney.  Then I want to do the East Coast trip.....again. I will call in to see family on the way past. 
11. Make my own bread in a breadmaker.  Need to buy one first.
12.  Grow more produce in garden and bake more.  The trouble is I love my own cooking, which of course is not good for waistline.
13.  Read more books - still have over 800 on the shelves to be read.
14.  And finally post more often on the blog.  It certainly has lapsed this year and lots have been happening too.

So thats me for this year.....Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year.