Happy New Year!

I hate going out on New Year’s Eve. It’s amateur drinkers hour where twats who don’t use pubs throughout the year decide to ruin it for those of us who do use them.

As our Xmas was also somewhat spoilt by the inconsiderate fucks next door it’s not been the best of Yuletide breaks but me, the Missus and the Boy ignored our two days of sonic hell and made the best of it by generally chilling out.

Myself and the Missus also made a list of goals for 2008 and, besides the things we need to do to the house and things we want to do together, there were things we want to do for ourselves.

Besides a few writing projects and returning to county pool, my list was going to include lots of hapkido goals but this particular list was cut short after I reread Bob Breen’s book Fighting.

Breen runs a successful martial arts academy in London and he’s a Jeet Kune Do specialist who’s also trained in several other styles. But Fighting emphasises the fundamental tools used by most martial artists in a systematic and thorough manner. It’s a wonderful book and consequently my hapkido list simply became one sentence: Don’t worry about learning anything new and revisit all the basics.

So that’s what I’ve been doing over the past few days in the garden and plan to do throughout the rest of the year.