This was the year that was not the year

This was the year that was not the year I repaired the bathroom tap and emptied out the kitchen drawer of a lifetime’s worth of crap.

This was the year that was not the year in which I launched a new career. 516 A West End hit eluded me as did Time Person of the Year.

This was the year that was not the year I became a household name. Action figures were not sold of me. I wasn’t made a dame.

This was the year that was not the year I spent less time on my phone. Nights of passion did not happen in boutique hotels in Rome.

This was the year that was the year I didn’t get that much done – much the same as the year before, much like the one to come.

A new page, a new year, big or small. New dreams, tiny or tall, let’s raise a glass to it all, the new life and the mundane, the special and the plain.