I wish my readers a happy and safe New Year.

I think most of my readers are reasonable folk and won’t be drunken driving or whatever! My wife and I will have a friend with us, and we will eat sea food and stay at home. There’s no sense in over-doing it…

May the coming year bring consolation and light at the end of the tunnel, may it bring the joy of living and an outstretched hand to all in need. May 2014 bring peace and new hope as 1914 brought war, death, destruction and the end of a world.