The Longest Journey Begins With The First Step.........

Today is Wednesday the 27th of December and I finally have to be grown up and admit defeat. At the beginning of this year I vowed to write one blog a day about one thought, one deed and one human contact that I had experienced on that day. I was doing ok until I went with my wife to Menorca in early September for a month where I took a break from writing any blogs the whole time that I was there. Mrs Norman, the Boswell to my Dr Johnson, was very good and made notes about each day we were there which I used to fashion the last few blogs that I have written since our return. Unfortunately to date I have only managed to get up to September the 30th, some three months short of my intended target. None of this matters one jot to anybody else on the planet but it matters a lot to me as self esteem is the only currency I truly value. In order to salvage some merit from the wreck of my broken resolution I will complete this years blog by writing about one thought, one deed and one memorable human contact experienced during each of the so far unrecorded months. As a penalty for not completing my original task in the allotted time I will continue to write a daily blog for at least ninety days into the New Year. In this way I will technically have completed a yearly report by the end of this year and actually have written the 365 blogs I originally intended by late March next year. I know that people who finish long races two laps behind all the other competitors don't really have cause to celebrate but people tend to applaud them anyway as the desire to be the best you can and to finish something you have started resonates strongly in all of us.