Let's hope it's a good one

Happy New Year? I dearly hope it’s better than the last one for all of us, but time and reality is gradually sanding the corners off my innate and irrepressible optimism. I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but this is how the end part of the last year was for me, and what 2026 looks like. A lot of lovely things happened in the first three quarters of last year. For one, I was able to make a…