<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/choc-cakejan2018.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4719" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/choc-cakejan2018.jpg" alt="" width="255" height="170" /></a>Food</span> - it's a classic time of boom and bust. At Christmas we buy or are given treats (biscuits, chocolates, crisps, nuts, wine) that we  wouldn't normally consume. I restrict what I buy so there is no temptation in the house. During the year I buy ginger biscuits and crackers rather than chocolate biscuits or crisps but if they cross the threshold and are in the house then I have to eat them. I don't have any discipline. As a consequence I've put on 2 Kgs over the past two weeks. It's a simple solution, eat less and do more (too cold to cycle)... Watch this space.

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/me-imagejan18.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4718" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/me-imagejan18.jpg" alt="" width="218" height="125" /></a>Personal</span> - What does 2018 hold for our personal lives? Who knows? More of the same or something dramatically different? The power to change things rests with every one of us. I'm really grateful for having the very good friends that I have and I'm trying to pay that forward to others. I visited somebody yesterday who had spent most of the festive period on their own; I'm trying to pay forward the support I get from others. Who knows, I might meet the second love of my life - I'll keep looking and try not to forget to have fun on the journey...</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/societiesjan18.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4717" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/societiesjan18.jpg" alt="" width="172" height="168" /></a>Society</span> - Will 2018 be the year when:</span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Theresa May eventually falls and is replaced by one of the backstabbing bastards that politics seems to breed? Jeremy Corbyn is Prime Minister? Donald Trump still be tweeting inanities? North Korea climb down from the brinkmanship stance it keeps taking? Truth overcomes "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alternative facts</a><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">"? There are fewer people on the planet? The poor and homeless will still be with us?</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/make-it-happenjan18.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4716" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/make-it-happenjan18-300x159.jpg" alt="" width="196" height="104" /></a>No Resolutions But</span> - I need to get off my backside and get back into making things happen – friends, U3A, University, holidays (Family in Norfolk, friends in Portugal, brother in California)...
So what does the future hold for you?</span>