Wishing that the best of 2009 is the worst of 2010 for all of you. Happy New Year, and thank you so much for reading, commenting and engaging with me & my family over the last 12 months!

So there’s a lot happening Chez Nous right now. Yesterday was Bob’s last day at work. Terrifying. Naively I did not expect to have this level of panic when Bob’s last day arrived – after all, we’ve known it was coming for a few months now – but it’s real. Really real. My husband is no longer in possession of a secure job and in three months I will be in the same boat. We have plans afoot which we’re keeping close to our chests right now – not because we want to be edgy and interesting, but purely because the concept of failure is simply not one we can entertain. If you’re at all intrigued you can follow The Life Craft on twitter and we’ll see where things go from there.

You may have seen me whinging once or twice recently about my poor pictures as a result of our camera (a much loved and overused Canon 300D) giving up the ghost so Santa Claus brought Bob a new Canon 500D. He managed to shoot this picture last night so I’m hoping my new photographs will be a similarly excellent quality!

Christmas this year wasn’t quite what I’d planned it to be and I think that’s okay. Under the circumstances it’s more than understandable but there’s still an element of disappointment there for me, the eternal child. I had great plans of an adventurous Advent with Christmas activities every night, steaming mugs of hot chocolate and black & white films to be watched with my all-consuming children. Never happened. Of course, perhaps that’s me expecting too much of my children who are of the cbeebies generation – The Wizard of Oz simply doesn’t have the magic that In The Night Garden contains, nor do my children have the patience to sit through 101 minutes of dated cinematography which has led to possibly the second big decision of the year thus far…

…but I’ll save that for another blog post

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