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and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
 and their spears into pruning hooks:
 nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,
 neither shall they learn war any more

If I had £100 billion would I spend it on ...

... building more hospitals, employing more doctors and nurses, ensuring that every child had access to a good school, investing in the public transport infrastructure, supporting individuals and their families with physical and mental needs, sponsoring medical research, providing shelter for the homeless, funding research into sustainable energy, ensuring that everyone is paid a living wage, eradicating extreme poverty ...

or would I spend it all on a nuclear deterrent?

Hmmm.

In 2012 ...

I knitted and crocheted

I cooked and baked

 I sang and listened to others sing

I involved myself in politics and campaigns

I supported local independent traders

 I went out and about in Bristol ...

... and in London

I went on holiday to St Ives

I started running and went on a diet and ...!

I survived the Jubilee but entered into the Olympic spirit.

I made holiday lists and managed to cross most items off them!

I met Fatmumslim's Photo a Day Challenge but didn't quite meet my own challenges to photograph A Month of Dinners or my Advent countdown.

All in all it's been a good year and I've certainly had fun trawling through my posts and reminding myself of its highlights.

Here's to 2013!

PS  I've thoroughly enjoyed reading other bloggers' reviews and greatly admire those whose photos are better displayed than mine.  Any tips on how to create mosaics on blogger would be much appreciated.

On the Thirteenth to Twenty-Fourth Days of December!

It was all going so well ...

And then, as it inevitably does, Christmas(?) finally caught up with me.

Exultate's Carols by Candlelight concert in the perfect setting of the Benedictine Priory of St James

Gasworks' Christmas Concert at St George's

Snow storming

                                                 Bristol Harbourside's Winter Wonderland

Bristol Choral Society's Messiah at the Colston Hall

Fromage en Feu's last gig of 2012 at No 1 Harbourside

So I've had little time, or energy, for blogging.

World Wide Knit in Public Day

Do you remember my floral bunting?

Well, this is where it ended up ... on a bus shelter on North Street, as part of Paper Village's celebration of Worldwide Knit in Public Day.

Here are the rest of the decorations:

Unfortunately I was at Stourhead, singing with the Gasworks Choir.  I did however take my knitting!

Ta Da! Moment - Floral Bunting

I am (Exceedingly) Amused!

One of the things I love about Bristol is that you never know what you're going to come across when you turn the corner.

This evening,  on my way into town to celebrate my younger daughter's 18th birthday, I cam across this.

It's absolutely brilliant.

Knitiffi, (tagline: Art is never finished, only abandonned ...) is a a collective of knit artists whose mission is to make our world a brighter, happier place.

  Well, they certainly did it for me!