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Issue 69 2019
Happy, Prosperous And Healthy New Year
By the time you read this, it will be the start of 2019 and I would like to firstly wish you all a happy, prosperous and healthy new year, and secondly ask, where the hell did 2018 go?
course, sensible action would have been a few nights off, but oh no, I had to go and brag on Facebook that I was doing Dry January and I even set up a Just Giving page for Cancer Research. I wouldn’t have stuck to it, but then the donations started coming in and I might tick many bad boxes, but liar isn’t one of them. I had no choice. I had to go through with it.
I always enter a new year full of fresh hope. This Above: Keri Beevis is going to be the start of something great. I am going to find my motivation, cut back on alcohol, get some exercise, quit eating pizza (uh oh, I hear pizza makers all over the UK cry), finish writing my new book, and basically, I’m going to get a life.
So, there I was in the supermarket, desperately scouring the shelves for a suitable non-alcohol alcoholly type alternative. I tried everything: fake wine, fake beer… I even tried Shloer for crying out loud. It was, without doubt, one of the hardest things I have ever done, and I would just like to take a moment to brag that I did it with a full wine rack in the house trying to tempt me. I resisted though and made it through to February 1st alcohol free and celebrated with a huge glass of my favourite Yellow Tail Shiraz. It was heaven.
Of course none of these things are really going to happen (well, except for the finishing my book bit. It’s almost complete and I’m hoping that, depending on my publisher’s schedule, it will be out springtime). I know the rest won’t happen, so does my family, and the universe knows it too, but I can pretend for the first few days, right? And everyone will smile along with me, but yes, we all know. The only time I have ever been successful in keeping a New Year’s Resolution was way back in 2014, when I foolishly decided to participate in Dry January. Going into the festive season, my clothes feeling snug and my wheelie bin carrying more than its fair share of wine bottles, I knew I had to take action. Of
The memory of dry January still haunts me, so I won’t be foolish enough to attempt it again, however, my plan for 2019 is moderation. I am also applying my friend, moderation, to exercise. Last year, I had ambitions of doing parkrun. Back in January 2018 I had visions of ‘End of 2018 Beev’ running rings around Mo Farah. This year I am trying to be a little more realistic and I’ve proposed a walking group to my day job work crew. Will I succeed? Only time will tell. I’ll keep you updated. PAGE
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