Are you glad to see the back of 2006? I certainly am. While I have no desire to wish my life away, this has been a year I'd rather not have had.

The funny thing is that it's not just me. I can see from my own astrology chart why I've been having such a bad run - and if I'm realistic, I'll admit that next year will only marginally be better - but it seems all my friends and relations have been having an equally ghastly year. Personally, I've been plagued by bad health, poverty and uncertainty about accommodation, and I can see others having similar problems.

Getting away from the personal, there have been a few good things. Governments, it seems, are finally admitting the reality of climate change. How come pollies are so dense? Climate change has been bleedin' obvious for over a decade! Al Gore's movie must've helped. And there've been some other good movies, too:-) I loved Kenny and Pirates of the Caribbean II best of all the films I saw this year. Thank heaven for good books, good music and good films. Sometimes a bit of escapism is downright necessary.

I wish you all a much better year in 2007, with lots of good reading - and writing, if you're that way inclined! Or whatever else lifts your heart.

And, as Dave Allen used to say, may your god go with you:-)