The turn of the year – and the start of a decade

A new year today, nay, a new decade.  2011.  A hundred years ago my grandmother was 7, in those last few years before the Great War.

I very much hope that this century we can avoid such horrors and remain, more or less, at peace.

In my life there are a number of new things.  As mentioned in a previous post, I spent most of last year getting my new Landlord Law web-site ready to launch on the world, and now I have a new toy to play with.  New things beckon, ebooks, podcasts and courses are some of the things I have in mind.  Watch this space.

On a more domestic level, I have celebrated the new year by moving my desk from one side of the office to another.  A difficult job, which has left one of the internet box thingys stranded in the middle of the floor.  The cable (our internet is cable) is too short to reach my desk now, under which the rest of the cables writhe together in decent privacy.  Apparently Virgin are going to need paying £150 to move it over to join them.

One reason for the move (the desk move that is) is to get me away from the draughts coming in through the front door and window, and closer to the fire (and thus hopefully stop my back playing up).  However I feel it also symbolises the change from one web-site to another, to new ways of working, and to new ideas and initiatives.  Towards a greater prosperity I hope.

And then today I learn that my friend and UK Lawyers collaborator Brian Inkster, has started a new blog – the Time Blawg – materialising out of the nether space to take its place among the canon of British Blawgs.  Good luck with it Brian!

This year is of course the year when everything changes in the legal profession, with the coming into force of the Legal Services Act.  None of us know yet whether it will be a bang or a whimper or just a slow burn.  But those firms with foresight are positioning themselves to move forward into the future.

So an interesting year awaits.  I have started the year as I mean to go on, by working on my new web-site and watching old Doctor Who DVDs.

What are your plans and where do you think the new year and decade will take us?