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Welcome to 2024, just 50 years since petrol rationing, 3 hour rota power cuts and the coal miners and others were on strike.

Sound familiar?

Enough of that rubbish, but I thought I’d let you know that I’m still alive and kicking up here in the far north. I know you have been worrying but it’s so nice here in the country and no longer at the top of a hill but more like the bottom of a gentle slope.

Even the residents are friendly as one of our neighbours managed to sell his house before he died and we have had a note come round from the committee chairman (we are not big enough to have any sort of council-just a committee that meets twice a year in the church hall-to discuss what needs doing) to say a card and present are being organised for the escapees to remind them of the villagers. They have actually moved just across the other side of the river and canal but like everything else, public transport from here to there is a journey into the big city some 4 miles south, change buses and back up the other side of the canal and river, in fact getting anywhere from here by public transport to just about anywhere else is a trip into the big metropolis and out again!

Oh I forgot, it’s been raining.

The news from 2023 is that my wife (notice partner is taboo in this household) is going into hospital for an operation at the end of February so I might have to manage on my own for a few days before the patient comes home to tell me what I have forgotten to do! Situation normal.

Other things that should happen this year is that the government might change, DAB radio is changing once again, the mobile phone network will cease to work including traffic management, car parking and a number of smart meters that will continue to be fairly useless only more so. I cannot think who might have to pay to sort out these little difficulties out, but I bet the instigators wont. Oh, I forgot, our telephones will cease to function unless you are a large organisation with a need to let even more machines communicate (aka talk) to us lesser mortals who simply just pay the bills. Talking about which, have you noticed the energy suppliers all say they are supplying us with renewable energy based on the price of electricity generated with gas (which isn't renewable) but it’s good for us (and the oil companies).