Résolutions

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  After a couple of weeks overindulging and lots of time to think I have decided to make several resolutions for 2015.  I confess that I have fallen off the cheesy nibbles wagon several times times lately and unfortunately landed in the treacherous sea of unusually abundant chocolate. So the woman sitting at the computer typing does sadly look as though she is storing food in her cheeks and would probably pass an audition for the Godfather.

The only thing that has been working in my favour is the adrenalin that has been coursing through my veins since I found out, to my cost, that the French Post Office have decided to pull the plug on the postal service I rely on most for my Etsy Shop.

So after a couple of anxiety ridden days attempting to decrypt the website of La Poste (which I think the Enigma machine might have struggled with) to find an alternative option I think I may have shed a little of that apres Noel weight.

I couldn't help thinking that it was not the most auspicious start to the year as I carefully altered the postal rates of all my stock (thankfully my stock is very low after the Christmas season so it didn't take too long) but now it is done I am back in business and ready to go shopping.

So much to buy and so little time

So my New Year's Resolutions are as follows:-

Buy, buy, buy and expand the stock of my Etsy shop to an all time high (hooray)

Stop faffing about and watching Hitchcock films and start working on the renovation of the house with something that resembles discipline (I did do a couple of days of wallpaper stripping which unfortunately gave me a terrific appetite which leads on neatly to my next resolution).

Stop eating everything that doesn't move (that includes our latest little indulgences the muffle (English muffin with scrambled eggs and truffles) and the Panperttone (a panettone pain perdu... I'm salivating at the thought of it which doesn't bode well).

To get back to England for a visit (and a shopping spree) as I have planned at least three times over the last couple of years but have always scuppered by something coming up, going wrong, breaking down etc.

To patiently wade through the red tape that will inevitably be involved in setting up the long held dream of a vintage café/brocante in the centre of Cognac with my husband Spike (this one may take some time).

So having awoken this morning to a beautiful sunrise over the rooftops of Cognac I am more than ready to implement my carefully laid plans - well I will be after a muffle or two for breakfast!