Well, I’ve generally been rubbish at updating this blog and keeping up to date with where I’m at with my resolutions but here is the 31 December round-up:

• photos: I didn’t take a photo every day (except for the time period between 31 May to 22 June. I do have a photo of myself on the first date of every month. I just need to find them… The best photo-related news this year is scoring a photo pass to the Green Day I was as close as I’ll probably ever get to Billie Joe Armstrong and even scored an all access pass (which I didn’t use for fear of it being confiscated). This will be a resolution I repeat year after year.
• ski trip: I finally made it skiing in Flumserberg, Switzerland back in January.
• Rubix Cube comp/air guitar comp/La Tomatina: Due to timing La Tomatina is the only one of these I made it to this year but it was fantastic! A crazy, smelly day!
• music festival: Rock Werchter was the best first festival experience ever and I’ve even got my tickets for next year!
• concerts: Nek in April, Green Day in May AND October, Rock Werchter (where I got to see one of Oasis’ (possibly) last shows ever).
• learn Spanish: when will I ever learn?? I think I need to move to Mexico then learn it properly once and for all. Although people could understand me when I was in Valencia (even better, I could understand them too!).
• free range chicken and eggs: I didn’t always get the free range chicken but I stuck at it with the eggs. I may have to stick with this one for a while.
• grow something: the fourth plant of the year won’t die no matter how much I neglect it so I may just be getting better at this. Either that or the flat is getting more and more damp.
• books: I didn’t read The Fountainhead. I didn’t even read the ones I’ve bought since that. Think I know what next year’s resolution is gonna be.
• gym: I sucked big time this year. Too much travelling and getting sick to focus on the gym. Poor poor excuse.

Now for a resolution I made in March but didn’t write here. Go out of England once a month, every month. And shock horror… I did it:

9-12 January – skiing in Flumserberg, Switzerland
13-15 February – visiting Conny in Mannheim, Germany
28-29 March – Brussels, Belgium
18-19 April – Nek concert in Brescia, Italy
9-10 May – Green Day gig in Cologne, Germany with Tom
30 May – 22 June – Egpyt & Jordan
2-6 July – Rock Werchter with Andrew in Werchter, Belgium
10-12 July – visiting Enrico in Pordenone, Italy
24-27 August – La Tomatina in Valencia/Buñol, Spain
19-20 September – Glasgow, Scotland
10-11 October – Nice, France & Monte-Carlo, Monaco with Tom
24 October – 1 November – visiting grandparents in Napier, New Zealand
27-29 November – visiting Conny in Mannheim, Germany
12-13 December – Bruges, Belgium with Tom

That’s 14 trips away, 20+ cities, 11 countries, countless number of photos, great times all round.