As it is January and thus still very much a time for making unrealistic pledges, I’m still fairly confident that I’m going to turn around my 2022 blogging slump and actually post quite regularly in 2023. However, my ambitions are tempered with a little reality – gone are the days of posting daily as I…
Tag: New year
Children Of The Resolution
As it’s New Year’s Day I find myself, as I do most years, compiling a list of stuff that I need to start doing in the coming year in order to make myself somewhat less inadequate. Most years, fully aware that any genuine attempt at self-improvement will inevitably be doomed to failure within a few…
The Desultory James Proclaims New Year’s Eve Review Of The Year That Was
It is New Year’s Eve and as such I am bound by the international blogging code of ethics to review the year that is about to end. The year in question is 2022, which, not being a leap year, was made up of 365 days. Some of those days were quite interesting. Some were not…
A Resolutionary Vision
It’s New Year’s Day and thus time to lift myself out of the pit of Christmas excess and make some empty promises about how much better I’m going to be moving forwards. I like to make such annual pledges in the form of a blog post, so that I have a record to look back…
The Formulaic James Proclaims New Year’s Eve Review Of The Year That Was
It’s New Years Eve and tradition dictates that I must review the year gone by for fear that no-one else will think to do it and the year would end unreviewed. Which would be a disaster. This year, the year that will be being reviewed is 2021. The best thing about 2021 was that it…
A Limerick That Mistakenly Blames A General Sense Of Discontentment On An Abstract Measure Of Time
Can it still be 2021? It’s almost but not quite yet done ‘Twas no 2020 But still I’ve had plenty And I hope that next year is more fun
Resolving To Be Resolute
As is customary on the first day of the year I intend to make some resolutions in order to stop being the rubbish version of me that the world has come to know and instead become a really good version of me. Maybe even to become the best me that I can be. But that…
The Inevitable James Proclaims New Year’s Eve Review Of The Year That Was
Ever since I started this blog, back in 2015, I’ve posted a sort of ‘review of the year’ on the 31st of December. It’s the kind of innovative idea that has made James Proclaims the ‘go-to’ blog for literally tens of people the world over for several years now. I’m surprised nobody else does it…
So You Say You Want A Resolution…
Ah 2020. What a year. I mean it’s obviously only just begun, but I have a feeling that 2020 will be a year like no other. Call it 2020 foresight if you will, but I predict that the year to come will be one that changes everything. But obviously not in a good way. There…
My Incredibly Ambitious Resolutions For 2019
Happy New Year everyone! Today is the first day of 2019 and, as is always the case at the beginning of any year, it is customary, arguably obligatory, to come up with a list of ways to self improve. Because there is no better way to start January, that most miserable of months, than by…
The (Increasingly Traditional) James Proclaims New Year’s Eve Review Of The Year That Was
It’s still 2018 as I write this. At least it is in the UK. In some other time zones it might well be 2019 by now. And indeed it will be 2019 here soon enough too. But before that happens, tradition dictates that it’s time, once again, for me to review the year that has…
Beginning The Journey To A Brand New Me
So 2017 is but a distant memory and now it’s all about 2018. And what better way to start the new year than by making some New Year’s Resolutions? Because convention dictates that this is the day that we all need to take a good long look at ourselves and realise that we just aren’t…
The (Now Traditional) James Proclaims New Year’s Eve Review Of The Year That Was
Well here we are again. The end of another year. A time, if ever there was one, for reflection. Which is something I like to do here on James Proclaims. Now, I’m aware I won’t be the only person doing this today but, lest we forget, I also did it at the end of 2015…
James Complains About January
I’m writing this in what can only be described as a foul mood. Christmas now seems but a distant memory and, although I’m sure I enjoyed it at the time, the net result of the recent festive period is that I’m now poor and fat. The return to the daily grind has left me so…
My Incredibly Realistic And Achievable Goals For 2017
Well here we are in 2017. Lots of people are glad to see the back of 2016 but I think it’s a little harsh to blame a specific period of time for all the ill that happened during said period of time. Although the legacy of many of the events that occurred in 2016 should…
The Obligatory New Year’s Eve Review Of The Year That Was
Last year I wrote a review of 2015 on the 31st December so it seems only fitting that I review 2016 today. Except that I’d rather not. It seems to be universally accepted that 2016 was a bit of a rubbish year all around. Not for everyone obviously – some people might well be thinking…
My New Year Resolutions That I’ll Definitely Be Sticking To
Tradition dictates that because it’s the beginning of a new year, I must make lots of pledges to change my way of life, even though I’m perfectly happy with my life for the most part. It’s mildly inconvenient, because while I accept that there’s always room for improvement, I’m not entirely certain that I’m ready…
James Reviews 2015, Just In Case Nobody Else Remembered To Do It
Well it’s the last day of 2015 and that calls for some kind of review of the events of the past 12 months. I’m probably the only blogger that’s even thought of doing this. It’s a pretty original and exciting idea is it not?
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