Probably the most worthwhile post I will ever make.

I'm from the Forest of Dean and like most children, have been coming here for nearly my entire life. The forest has been around for over eight thousand years and is the most beautiful place to visit, it is visually stunning. To the "disguist" of all locals, the government have this week confirmed plans to sell off the forest land, which is currently owned by the Forestry Commission, by 2020 and today I went to my first protest meet along with two hundred others at Speech House to try and stop the govenment from making private ownership of our land. I cannot express how important this cause is to me and no doubt everyone else who appreciates the full beauty of the forest. If you have ever been to the forest, ever enjoyed and used it's facilities or even just walked amongst it's beautiful scenery then please sign this appeal

http://www.theforester.co.uk/saveourforest.cfm

because you really won't ever know how many lives you will touch with that one name.

Just. Listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7JbXolYch0

"Well Hello 2011"

This is infact the first time that I have typed 2011 and I have to admit it feels kinda weird. 2010 went by so fast and when I think about it, I didn't really achieve an awful lot. I said goodbye to alot of people that I would do anything to have back in my life, and I said hello to maybe a few that shouldn't have been there. But as they say, a new year brings a new start. I like to think of starting a new year like when you start the first page of an exercise book at school - you really don't want to fuck this one up. Yet as much as you try to make as little errors as possible, you always manage to smudge that ink. I think, for me, deciding to have a fresh start is a little unrealistic, I'd like to carry on 2011 where I left off in 2010. I guess I had to make resolutions. Everyone does. Resolutions are like that bar of chocolate you keep at the bottom of your underwear draw, you try so hard to keep it but just fall back into your same habits. I don't think I can keep chocolate within a mile radius of myself before I eat it, so I went for some resolutions that it would be difficult to break. To be more charitable, to get healthy and to put my work first before my social life. I think to say 'be more healthy' is alot easier than 'to go to the gym more and stop browsing facebook' because it's realistic. I want to wake up in the morning and feel as fresh as a daisy, not with a sore head and work to stress about.

I don't want to change this year, but I don't mind if the year changes me...

"We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with a new experience and character" - Henry David Thoreau