Linn und Kai our friends in Hamburg Germany kindly sent us a second box full of naughty German food, plus tea (they know me well!). The Christmas gift package arrived before Christmas and was a very welcomed surprise.

I love trying food from around the world and being vegetarian still means there are plenty of wonderful items to devour.

We are currently organising a food package to send to Germany, so hopefully they will like their box of British treats being sent shortly.

Cheers Linn und Kai.

I wish all of you a happy new year! This blog post is a look back at 2011, but more importantly looking forward into 2012.

2011 was one of my worst adult years and the year contained two family deaths, hardship, violence, health problems and more. At times it was like wading against a monster wave, aka ‘The Perfect Storm’. However there were moments of 2011 which I enjoyed, including some of which I blogged about. As well as having a great girlfriend and family, I’m lucky to know some fantastic people in the UK and around the world. 2011 would have been far worse, if it wasn’t for the great people in my life.

Please expect more of the same style of blog posts during 2012, but I will stop sharing my website statistics. Instead the end of month post will now be a photo per day round-up! I’ve decided to take a photo per day, aka Project 365 style, but seeing as it is a leap year, a project 366!

Last year I picked a word for the year, which was ‘progress’ and even through the nightmare year, I tried to live by the word. In 2012 my chosen word is ‘repair’, which I’m already living by. Have you chosen a word for the year? I hope you do and please let me know what your word is in the comments.

So what else do I have planned? Quite a lot, but this year I won’t be sharing my new year’s resolutions which are more ambitious this year.

I can’t wait for 2012 to unfold and I hope you stick around and reply via the comments.

Earlier this year I took a month long break from personal blogging, and now I’m going to take a longer break. I’m setting the time circuits for 1st January 2012. I hope over the next two and a half months you have a grand time. I’m disabling comment notifications, so please forgive a lack of response. See you in the future.

Steve Jobs

An innovator not only often turning science fiction into reality, but did it in style and changed the lives of so many, not just yesterday and today, but moving forward into tomorrow. He shined the light leading the way. Thank you.

1955 – 2011