Moving Targets.

On your marks get set and let’s go!

The first blog of 2026 and hopefully the intention is to be more productive than I was last year, did I enjoy it, yes, I did, but looking back its more of a case of I could/should do better, it’s all about continuous personal development (blog wise) and all I can do is try my best!

How can I improve the blogs, well it’s important that I get me and the wife back to having some kind of social life, some small kind of human interactions with other people (no not the police) but people who we have known for a long time, what’s the term for that again? ah yes friends, this has been the worst Christmas that we have ever had, for reasons I won’t go into details in this a public forum, however we both agree it will be better going forward she agrees we have become far too isolated with too many issues that shouldn’t cause any problems, unfortunately that was not the case.

Our health is being impacted by us being prisoners in our own house, its time to spread our wings, initial contact has been made and the first of a number of cunning plans is moving forward (for once) even the wife agrees, that’s a step in the right direction at last! A friendly voice calling to wish the wife a happy birthday, broke the dam and thankfully in the coming months will be just the thing that we need to push us over the waterfall, baby steps first as we will soon be going on holiday and then the intention is to be upwardly mobile.

A couple of tasks in the house to get the house finally ship shape and then time to be amongst friends (finally) and to enjoy their company. As for our health  the wife has been suffering and putting up with it, I have the usual maladies and I’m getting on with it, what’s bugging me is my lack of sleep the last eight months the longest I sleep is around five and a half hours, I go to sleep alright, and I’m rested when I wake up, but the length of time actually sleeping is shrinking, I wander the house from around three in the morning like an unemployed burglar, it really does seem as though I have turned into my mother as she rarely slept more than five hours a night, I simply wish I could be more like my wife and turn over once I have woken up and return to the land of slumber, I have as always done some research but none of the cures seem to have helped!

Work is as busy usual but thankfully there is a light at the end of the tunnel (and no its not an oncoming train…..I hope) but I will keep my powder dry on that one as I don’t want to jinx it! so going forward there are still plenty of moving targets (cunning plans) and hopefully I might just bag a couple of them this year, so here’s hoping that this year will be successful as the last  decade or so with the blog increasing numbers by about ten per cent year on year, however 2025 saw the biggest leap though by nearly sixteen percent, I don’t know why, and I simply don’t care, long may it continue!

So watch the skies and keep your fingers crossed that I can do all the things that I want to do with the blog, keep spreading the word, click like or whatever you do on whatever platform you find this on, hopefully good times are just around the corner, yes the name game is in play, lets try not to google it and see if you can guess, so stay safe and stay alive until the next glorious episode of the blog……………………Toodles!