Celebrate good times, come on! Well at least you’ve got more chance of remembering the words to “Celebration” than that Scottish one which everyone holds their hands together to at the stroke of midnight, growl slightly and then leach over that girl who just turned 16 in the corner.

Actually, one does have to wonder why we seem to go ape when the new year comes in, and why we wait for the new year before starting anything new. It’s almost as if we’ve been given permission to forget everything that happened before, and let our hair down for the one time that the police have to pretend not to care about someone being sick in their helmets.

Mind you, it’s the same question that leads us down a lot of avenues with no real answer at all, “it’s just always been that way”, has it? Has it really? Maybe as Doug Stanhope said about the bible, the same applies to it all; “It’s like Timecop. It’s great as long as you don’t question it.”

So to all of you, have a great time at the gym, get that new job / woman / man / fish / monster truck / electronic thingy you’ve always wanted as this is your year big guy or girl. You go out there and make it the best one ever and when it all falls over, there’s always next year to start all over again. This must have been what was meant in the Lion King; The Circle of Life.

That will be all. At ease.