Having always fallen into the camp of finding New Year a mildly depressing a affair I endevoured to enjoy myself this year and I must say succeeded fairly well. Cheap beer made for a good night and it would have been a good night New Year or not.

I still think New Year is pointless and crap. No one celebrated the end of November, mourning the passing of the 30th November 2006 and revelling at the arrival of 1st December 2006 did they? Its the same difference apart from the last number changes.

Also ponitless are New Year Resolutions. If you really wanted to (delete as appropriate) stop eating handfuls of lard/chuffing on cancer sticks/drinking so much your liver resembles a ping pong ball you would have stopped on 13th June/8th May/16th September. These dates are no different from 1st January really.

I think my main gripe with New Year is that it is to near Christmas, a holiday that I love, and it always seems a bit of a letdown. Maybe its because New Year doesn't come with presents (I think I'm just being greedy now!).

In true Lucylot style I have thought a lot about this and come up with a solution. So all you out there with NYP (New Year Pathos) listen carefully....I propose we move New Year's Eve to 31st March. Think about it, starting the year in Spring when everything is new and growing and there are lamb and daffodils and all that crap really would feel like the beginning of something new. Currently people make their resolutions, then go back to work in the dark and the rain and the misery. No one was find it easy to (delete as appropriate) stop eating handfuls of lard/chuffing on cancer sticks/drinking so much their liver resembles a ping pong ball. However moving it to Spring, the days would be lighter and summer would be approaching and people would be more likely to actually (delete as appropriate) stop eating handfuls of lard/chuffing on cancer sticks/drinking so much their liver resembles a ping pong ball.

This is how it will work, it will be January 2 2006 followed by February 2 2006 and finally March 2 2006. The new year then begins in April 2007.

Come on people start lobbying your governments! It what Mother Nature wants.

We'll worry about Leap Years later.