Like most years, 2012 started as most years do, with promises for diets and fitness, plans for a better working life and more fun that the previous year. These plans always find a way of failing for one reason or another. I wanted so many things to happen in 2012 and I’m a little sad to say that most never came to fruition. They say that the I wants always want and I gets always get. I therefore didn’t make things happen for myself and only have myself to blame for any stagnation in my life. As a child the 6 weeks holiday from school lasted a lifetime in the longest and warmest of summers. Now a year passes with the blink of an eye and I find myself writing my review of the year with the feeling that I’ve some how let myself down having not done enough to move my life forwards. Its not however that I haven’t tried, just that I’ve failed to land my plan in 2012…
The year was always going to be special with some significant events that really defined how I will remember the year. I firmly remember standing in the cold and rain with thousands of people to get my first chance to see the queen in the flesh. Little would I know that 3 months later I would be sitting next to her in my car while in a traffic jam. Now that was a very surreal moment…
The Diamond Jubilee was the start of a party that led up to the London 2012 Olympic Games which I felt was the most amazing month for London and the UK as a whole. I loved seeing the games makers everywhere I went and still wonder where these people are now that we can no longer see them dressed in purple and with an ID badge the size of small TV around their necks.
We did have some hot sunny days but my cold soaked feet tell me otherwise, I know that at the start of the year the weather men were asking for more rain after a very long dry period but whatever rain dance they did it certainly worked and continues to do so with abundance. I humbly ask that we can have a decent summer in 2o13. Please…… The Jubilee and the Olympics brought ships, boats and all manner of water craft to the Thames. I loved seeing all the tall ships, the cruise ships and seeing the aircraft carrier HMS Ocean which I was lucky enough to visit.
The daily helicopter flights of the RAF flying over my home keeping me and everyone else safe was always welcome even late at night. The special forces practicing mock attacks on the Queen right outside my lounge window was better than any TV show. Also it was free and it lasted most of the day…
It was the year that I decided to change my car after many years with Jennie the Mini and although it broke my heart to part with her, the new car is amazing and so much more than I could have expected.
It took for most of the year to pass for me to finally get a couple of decent films to watch. The first was Looper which was a very original story and so well constructed.
and the other was Skyfall which was long overdue and well worth the wait.
Towards the end of the year I took a Helicopter flying lesson and drove a rally car which was great fun.
I was lucky to meet and see some interesting people, Jeri Ryan, Keeley Hawes, Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Karl Urban, Gillian Anderson, Carol Ann Ford, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Richard Curtis, Stellan Skarsgård and only last week ended up meeting up and coming British actress Hayley Atwell…
After all that, I guess 2012 wasn’t a terrible year. I got to take lots of pictures. Have some laughs and oh bugger, that’s another year gone with a blink of an eye… I wonder what 2013 will bring???
Happy New Year everyone and thanks for reading Moliblog…
M
