Exercising started well, but has slipped recently and I have read very little in the way of fiction. I deal with threats and uncertainty by adopting a state of hyper-vigilance which takes the form of wanting to know as much as possible about the threat so I can change my behaviour accordingly and do what I can to prepare. Following the twists and turns of Brexit has been exhausting enough over the past four years, without the added stress of a global pandemic, so there's been a lot of reading factual articles about both. However, I'm hoping that in 2021, with the threat of No Deal Brexit removed and with vaccines and better treatments becoming available, I'll be able to focus more of my attention on my own projects and also be able to relax enough to read more fiction. With so many real problems affecting the UK, it's been next to impossible to be engaged by fictional problems affecting fictional people.
My overall theme for 2021 will be "Consolidation". As well as maintaining my Welsh language fluency this year, I recently started learning Spanish again and that is progressing nicely. Slowly, but nicely. I made 4 videos for my YouTube channel and the last one was quite popular. I'd like to make one every 6 weeks in 2021.
I don't want to take on any new ongoing projects. We might finally be able to get our kitchen makeover done in the summer if/when we get vaccinated against covid (as long as local levels of infection are still low), but that's a one-off. I will, however, resurrect the family history research which was going quite well at one point but then stalled. I've worked out how to stop that becoming an open-ended neverending project, so I'll make a start in the New Year. My motivation will be being able to cancel the subscription to Ancestry once I've finished all the researching I intend to do.
Hopefully we'll be able to start travelling again sometime in 2021. I would like to visit London again. Over the past years we've had mini-breaks in London about twice a year, sometimes more if we were going to join an anti-Brexit demo. We must definitely get to Cardiff to see family, though initially, as soon as the weather is good enough and the days are longer, we'll be meeting them outdoors in a socially distanced way somewhere in the middle of Wales. I may even get to visit my brother in Salisbury.
The local meetings that all moved online will probably start meeting face-to-face again in the summer. We will have to see...
