Learning Curves

This weekend I have achieved one New Year's Resolution, and failed one.

I have 'achieved" going on the Bluebell Railway.

Here's me with a glass of champers in the Chelmwood carriage of the Wealden Rambler, travelling from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead.

And I failed to complete my 'Before 24' list.

The state of my 'To Do Before I'm 24' list when I turned 24:
- Play Monopoly
- Visit Belfast
- Learn how to light a BBQ
- Learn how to mow the lawn
- Get 4th tattoo
- Get a credit card

I played Monopoly for about an hour before I became a bit of a sore loser and didn't want to play anymore.

I applied for a credit card and got rejected - no surprise, as I was unemployed at the time. Now I'm too scared to apply again. I will try before I leave the country.

Claire and I tried to learn how to light a BBQ on Thursday night (my birthday eve). We didn't really succeed. At all. Ah well. We gave it a go.



Another year older, and another year wiser.
Well, another year older.




Things I've learned in the last year:
- I am gifted (in a very special, impossible way) at knitting
- How to live with my father
- How to live without my mother
- I love working in casting
- Plymouth has it's own version of the London Eye
- Alcohol is banned in Monument Valley
- What it's like to be on the other side of depression
- My sister isn't fluent in Italian
- Pubs in Belfast kick out at about half midnight

Things I haven't learned in the last year:
- What alcohol goes into a New Orleans Hand Grenade
- To knit properly (i.e conventionally) and without adding or dropping stitches with every row
- How to successfully light a BBQ
- How to make hummus without a blender
- How to make the perfect banana bread
- How to control my chocolate habit