Happy New Year to anyone bored enough to be reading this!

I am not a big fan of the new year (apart from the Tarts always lovely NYE parties! Great again ladies!!) and I often find it a rather melacholic time of year, however, I am looking forward to a few things in the year ahead.

I have renewed my pland for a great holiday taking in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. Despite not liking long flights, (especially the leg cramps and sheer boredom) I would love to see this part of the world. However, I am planning something fairly ambitious in terms of destinations - I mean lots of them! Also, bit of a bugger New Zealand being in the middle of winter while we in the Northerm hemisphere are in summer - what WILL I wear!!

I am quite proud of myself for losing a couple of stone and getting fitter in 2003, so one of my resolutions is to keep that up. It's back on the diet after this weekend, and back to the gym. I have never bothered much before, but I surprised myself how good it made me feel about myself. I was always a sporty kid, all the way through university. It was work that made me lazy - that's my excuse anyway! Its easy to think, "I'm tired, I've worked hard, I deserve that ice cream/packet of crisps/bacon double cheese burger and large fries!"

I have a new swimming costume, new tracks loaded on my portable MP3 player, new shuttlecocks for badminton, and am finishing off the Christmas chocolates... here's to 2004!