Fixing things in 2025!

One should start a new year by sitting firmly on one's throne, not breaking it and falling off!

- Anna Cellliers

Most will approach another year with firm intentions to better their health and personal appearance - sometimes with moderate success, but mostly not, from what I have seen! My New Year's resolutions do not include curtailing any bad habits (they are just too engrained by now), and no efforts I made to look any better seem to have been fruitful. There is simply no cure for wrinkles, and neither for gravity when one reaches a certain age.

It was actually when they were down, and the earth moved under me that I realised there is something I can apply my mind to in the new year by using the one organ in my body I hope is still in good working order - I can try to improve my skills by becoming a handyman who knows how to fix household things. The reason for this strange train of thought is that the contraption I was sitting on at the time gave way...

It is clear that estate agents who have been in charge of rental properties for years never investigate their amenities in more depth before signing off on an old contract and setting up a new one. It would be my advice that they should actually spend a day or two in the house to check out that everything is not just more or less in working order at a glance but actually comfortable on a deeper level.