RESOLUTE

I made a new year resolution a few years ago never to make one again and have kept to it rigidly. I just realised if I want to do or not do something then I should try to do it without excusing my failure because it was cold, it was January, everyone was depressed and no one had any money. I now therefore have been forced to come up with much more creative excuses for not stopping doing or continuing doing certain things.

New year resolutions are simply the annual equivalent of looking at the alarm clock in the morning and waiting until it goes to 7.25 and then 7.30 and then 7.35*.

*Consult Douglas Adams The Salmon of Doubt for further information as to why you shouldn’t bother.