Revolution resolutions

As an endless list maker,mainly on my hand,I of course embrace the opportunity to make one for my New Years resolutions,using multi coloured Sharpies,obvs and with a liberal sprinkling of stars.

I kept 2016's list up on the pin board all year and aside from "being more sociable" I nailed it pretty well,down to the exact truck and the comfiest sofa- which is ,thinking about it,probably why failing on the being more sociable was a bust.


To be honest, although my actual nights out can be counted quickly,I don't feel like it was a bad thing.Being on my own means time to think & to create unhindered by responsibility and with starting my own business,those things have been integral to working out what the hell I'm doing.

There are the old chestnuts on every NY list - regular exercise and a healthier diet- that fade in and out every as the year peaks & troughs,though this year I gave up meat & cows milk and try eat Turmeric everyday & I actually feel like it's sticking, so keeping it up is the goal for 2017.Proper exercise went way out after I broke my ribs,err last May, but I feel like I run up the stairs a 100 times a day so I'm not exactly slothful, still it wouldn't hurt to make it a bit more official.

The business is obviously high on the agenda for 2017, keeping it going and what the shape of that will be, it's all still a work in progress,but 8 official months later,today actually, I'm still trading,all be it if at a lull over next few weeks. Admin not my strong point, I feel I might need a (vintage) filing cabinet to help keep me organised, ahem...
Part of developing the business is learning new skills and making Art part of my daily life.Can you teach a techno retard new tricks? Watch this space...

After that the list gets a bit more serious...Save the Elephants, Tigers,Polar bears,The Arctic, rain forests,Wolves, the rights of indigenous people,Whales,Coral reefs,the Antarctic, Fresh water,Krill,Sharks ...did I say the Bees? Birds, Frogs,Glaciers,Madagascar,Borneo,Giant Pandas & Tortoises,Butterflies,Bears, Bats,Dolphins,Seals and Penguins,to name just a few creatures and places on the critically endangered list.

We've all heard that 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded in an increasing list of hottest years ever ( Insert joke about the British Summer here) but dig a little deeper and you'll find some very scary statistics about what is really happening to our environment that is kept out of the media for fear of mass panic. We have gone over the tipping point in terms of rising temperatures,sea level rises,pollution, fresh water shortage, food shortage and the planets wildlife are deep into the 6th mass extinction- in as little as 30 years, One fifth of the worlds creatures will cease to exist.
 Make no mistake,the world's future ain't looking too bright,so is there any point spending 2017 trying to save the planet or should all our resolutions be more along the lines of "Enjoy yourself it's later than you think?"https://youtu.be/hdqigZ50Zlc

To save my sanity I've had to reconcile my concerns to what I can actually do in my day to day life to feel like I'm at least trying to wrestle a life jacket on a sinking ocean liner.I've stopped eating meat, cut way down on dairy,am watching my consumption, recycling,mending & avoiding plastic and packaging where possible but Big society doesn't want me to do any of those things so it's an uphill battle.

Still it's one I will be dedicating 2017 to, in the vain hope that if enough people can be the change we wish and need to see in the world. Let revolution be your resolution.

And if it all goes belly up as the planet takes her revenge
 ( Watch out for that Italian Volcano) I bought myself a 2nd hand copy of Ray Mears Bushcraft skills for Christmas...





George Monbiot The climate crisis is already here