Time is mine and that tricky thief of time will not steal it

I am going in to the New Year with so many things lying ahead of me. Not just jobs but things I want to do for myself.

These “tasks” or “jobs” cover a wide range from tidying the garden to reading books; from tiling the kitchen walls to doing jigsaws; from redecorating the living room to tracing my ancestors.

The point is none of these will be New Year resolutions because once you “resolve” to do something you tend to find a myriad of other things that will need to be done sooner.

Over the past few months I have been getting up in the mornings and deciding to do this, that, or the other. Yet after our morning cups of tea, getting dressed, having our breakfast it suddenly seemed there was not enough time to do what I intended to do and I end up doing something other than what I had intended to do.

Procrastination is the thief of time, or so we are led to believe, but is it true? Is it not ourselves who decide what we should do or not do?

We can not steal time because time is constant, we might waste time by carrying out an unnecessary action but the time was still there no matter what we did with it.

This year I will read (I have received plenty of books from Brontë to Tolkien; Shelley to Stevenson; Dumas to Melville); I will bake (bread, biscuits and cakes); I will decorate and I will garden.

The point is I will do it in my time and when I want to do it, not to a strict timetable.

I hope you all have a good time in 2025.