New Year's Day

Another year to look forward to, whilst we look back at the previous, not only one year but whole decade, whatever happened to the 2010s?  They seemed to pass so quickly. 

For some reason 2020 sounds like a better year than 2019, at least numerically.  I was very pessimistic at the start of 2019, and most of my worse fears occurred, with the odd spot or two of wonderfulness in the form of Emma and Andy's weddings.

We enter the new year with an ex-Etonian prime minister with such a large majority he is free to do whatever he wishes without much opposition.  Five years? Ten years? who knows how long he can stay in power, the same questions we asked when Donald Trump was elected across the pond.

Maybe its just as well as I get older my major problems are medical, it takes my mind away from the world going to wrack and ruin.  There has to be some optimism, maybe 2020 will be start of that, we can only hope, though its not looking too promising at the moment.

A symbol of something nice? This tête-à-tête flowered overnight, pleased to be part of the start of the new decade.