New Year’s Day on Thursday and again spent my time reading, walking, collecting litter and reading the agenda documents of the forthcoming Audit Committee on the 13th January.    New Year’s Day was spent with friends and family at a hotel at Farlam, Nr Brampton.   Work as a City Councillor and Parish Councillor starts in earnest on the 5th.   Well at least the Telecom engineer came on the 29th and restored our telephone connection with the outside world and apologised for the damage that had been caused by one of his colleagues.   We now await the washing machine engineer.