I was all set to write one of those slightly twee resolutions posts that are almost obligatory every New Year and then I thought to myself, are you completely MAD, woman" You don’t even have time to wash your hair, half the time – what kind of improvements to yourself are you POSSIBLY planning to make" 
Resolutions have become big business over the last couple of years. No longer a little set of relatively mundane personal challenges (give up booze for January, stop saying f*ck at inappropriate moments, remember to take the damp washing from the machine so that it doesn’t get that funny smell), resolutions seem to be an opportunity for people to do a full and frank appraisal of their own strengths and weaknesses with a detailed action plan for any improvements they might make in the near future. Nope. Sorry, but doing a full and frank appraisal of my strengths and weaknesses is simply not on the agenda. I’m merely trying to bumble through life and keep my head above water. Gone are the days when I had the luxury of being able to analyse my work habits, make changes to my daily timetable to maximise efficiency, give pause to the various (and numerous) brainwaves that would push my career further and present me with interesting challenges.
Now I maximise efficiency by drafting blog posts in my head as I play tea parties with a toddler, brainwaves usually happen as I sit on the loo and then, when I get a spare hour, I get straight to the...