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Welcome
Best wishes from myself and the Yorkshire Today team for a brilliant new year,
let's hope it's better than the last one!
Undoubtedly I'm not the only one who felt the holidays slipped past a little too
quickly this year, and for all the planning spent on Christmas and the New year
events, it seems almost ridiculous that they were over so quickly. Now is
obviously the time to look back on the year and see what we have achieved, or
in my case, look back and realise why I am sprinting into 2010 with nary a
second glance.
Let's get the most obvious event out the way, shall we? Yes, okay, there was a
recession, still is. Now that most of the scaremongering is over and we have
realised that the world is in fact not about to implode, things are calming
down. Recent figures show that young people this Christmas have spent much more
than in previous years. I have no idea what this is supposed to show in terms
of a recession, but apparently a bank worker told me this like he expected some
kind of award. One can only assume the specific nature of this statistic is
because anyone who doesn't classify as young, spent far less money. Still
things are not as bad as they seem, and certainly not as bad as the newspapers
portrayed.
One thing I do enjoy about the end of the year, as you may have gathered above,
is the absurd amount of statistics that are given about our life. From how much
we spend on Christmas, to the amount of alcohol consumed, right down to the
correlation between moustache size and dining accidents. . . I hear that's an
important one! A recent survey of road safety has shown that two towns in
Yorkshire have managed to make it into the top ten most dangerous roads in the
UK - congratulations to Sheffield and Bradford.
Another one that I think adequately shows the pointless factor of these surveys
is that the person who most walks the Yorkshire Dales is in fact a dog named
Morris. Who has climbed Ingleborough 32 times since April as he constantly
leaves his home to walk with climbers. For this, and we kid you not, he has
received a medal. Now if one of my dogs made a habit of running away from home,
risking roads and traffic to cross the dales, the only reward he'd be getting
would be an electric collar. Unfortunate perhaps for those people who were
really trying for an award such as this.
So yes, I believe 2010 will be a much more fulfilling year and am certainly
looking forward to it. With the general elections approaching we can at least
look forward to the entertainment as we watch the equivalent of school children
insulting each other, except with people who should really know better.
Perfect.
Have fun reading and enjoy a wonderful 2010.
Steve Fisher
Editor
Yorkshire Today, the quality publication for discerning readers.