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Annual reflection

A post for each year of my life, summing the main things I remember or feel about the year. 2023 onwards are written on the day. Prior posts are recollections as I can best remember.

Missing years will be filled in over time

Species rich grassland with a golden colour and fields in the distance

Reflections on 2024

Tue 31st Dec '24Sat 4th Jan '25

Another eventful year has passed, and it’s been relaxing to have a couple of weeks with not a lot happening to recharge....

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A species rich grassland close up and full of wildflowers.

Reflections on 2023

Sun 31st Dec '23Sun 31st Dec '23

This is going to be a different post to the usual diary entry, when I’ll look back at the year as a...

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A landrover pulling a brush harvester in a wildflower meadow

Reflections on 2022

Sat 31st Dec '22Fri 29th Dec '23

These are my (incomplete) recollections of the year 2022, as remembered in December 2023. I suppose this was the first year since...

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An autumn woodland with a man in orange helmet brush cutting the grassland

Reflections on 2021

Fri 31st Dec '21Fri 29th Dec '23

Writing in December 2023, this is what I recall from 2021, a year still plagued by the aftermath of covid restrictions. This...

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A big landscape in Wales with a snow capped peak in the distance

Reflections on 2020

Thu 31st Dec '20Fri 29th Dec '23

Of course, 2020 needs no introduction. These are my recollections from that year written in December 2023. It was my first full...

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A bay in cornwall full of fishing boats on the sand

Reflections on 2019

Tue 31st Dec '19Sun 31st Dec '23

This year marked a significant lifestyle shift from the previous 30. On 7 May, I walked into Pure Planet and handed in...

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A stripped internal wall with wooden vertical beams and a stepladder in front

Reflections on 2018

Mon 31st Dec '18Sun 14th Jan '24

This was a year of major remodelling on the house. The enormous and ridiculous staircase, which took up half the house, was...

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A lake in scotland with a mountain to the right and a castle to the left

Reflections on 2017

Sun 31st Dec '17Sun 14th Jan '24

Pure Planet went into live service at the end of March, just six months after I started. The first part of the...

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A green valley with steep sides, a river in the middle and a clouded mountain top on the left

Reflections on 2016

Sat 31st Dec '16Mon 15th Jan '24

This was the year I stopped drinking alcohol. It wasn’t intended to be so at the outset. I did Dry January for...

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Annual Reflections

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