Swimming With Trout

New Year Resolutions 2012

Hi there! Well, this blog has been going over a year now – and we’re all still here, although the rate of new entries has slowed down a bit! I’m intending a bit of a shake up soon. (Watch this space.)

Have a wonderful 2012. May you swim with trout. Meantime - here are a few of our new year resolutions. Have you made any this year? – Roger Stevens

My New Year Resolution Number 1: Not to make New Year's Resolutions. Only disappointment and a sense of failure comes with them. Number 2: To follow my own good advice re not making Resolutions. - Michaela Morgan

1: To be dafter – daft and wonky both make good poems.  (Don’t let my family see this – they already think my daft and wonky are off the scale.) 2: To be more awake when I’m doing ordinary things. Then I’ll squeeze all the juice out of everyday experiences, enjoy them more and have more material for writing. That’s a double whammy! - Jan Dean

I never remember to carry out my resolutions. This year I made a resolution

to carry out my resolution when I made a resolution. And decided NOT to make a resolution so I didn’t have to carry it out. Then I remembered - I wanted to carry a notebook at all times to write all the ideas I forget when I don’t have a notebook

to note them down in. So I've made a resolution to carry out my resolution to carry out my notebook, and thus carry out my resolution and carry out a notebook for the first time ever, after all.

If I remember. - Liz Brownlee

I resolve not to complain at the drop of a hat.
I resolve not to drop my hat. Bernard Young

1: To spend more time searching for the ends of rainbows.

2: To swim with trout so they're not as jealous of dolphins. 

3: To get rid of some of my old books so the house doesn't explode

- Sue Hardy-Dawson

1: To write a poem in tiny words on each finger nail.
2: To buy a magnifying glass.
3: To learn each poem by heart.
4: To cut my nails.
5: To see how many finger-nail poems I can remember.
6: To stop being so silly.
The End. - Celia Warren

This Year… Be Kind to Animals

Agree with aardvarks

Be nice to bees

Cook for caterpillars

Dance with dolphins

Entertain elephants

Frolic with frogs

Giggle with gorillas

Holiday with hippos

Inspire iguanas

Joke with jackals

Kiss koalas

Lunch with llamas

Motivate moose

Natter to numbats

Organise owls

Play with platypi

Queue with quail

Read to rabbits

Snuggle with snakes

Tickle terrapins

Understand unicorns

Value vultures

Wave at whales

eXercise with oXen

Yodel with yaks

and let zizzing zebras zzzzzzzzzz

-Jane Clarke

And finally, for the grown-ups...

Not get drunk

Not be rude

Not eat chocolate

Or other nice food

Cut down on drugs

Fags and caffeine

But wait until   

2013

- Andrea Shavick.