A happy new year to all my readers! As this is a publically-accessible site, I have no idea how many or, more accurately I’m sure, how few you are. But, it’s not all about you! It’s about ME!

Christmas passed pleasantly and, happily, fairly uneventfully. It’s the way we like it. Saw Miles and Flo and various Wheelers, and a few friends. January is now well on it’s way and – one of my favourite quotes – “if Winter comes can Spring be far behind?” I’d assumed for years that this was Shakespearean, only recently discovering it was that Percy Bysshe Shelley bloke. So much for A-level English. And thank you, Google.

Winter views in Portishead…