First of all, my apologies to all readers - I have suffered a virus attack on my PC which has made writing very difficult. This is a particularly annoying virus which has succeeded in turning off my antivirus protection, reset the boot file, played stupid messages to me (including singing stupid messages to me!) and despite a stay in the local computer hospital is still not fixed. Suffice it to say I have not been sending messages to people and the laptop is now being used and I'm having to save everything onto external drive just to be on the safe side. Anyway enough of the moaning - I'm off out to bring in the New Year.

My New Year's project - I am going to chronicle the year 2009 by way of reference to quirky/interesting items in the local regional newspaper - keeping a cross referenced cuttings book and a writing journal. Of course I shall be posting any best bits/poems/musings here as well.

I hope the New Year brings lots of writing success for everyone.

Love from Sujen