The problem with the internet is that things don't seem to go away… ever.
If I wrote my magazine column on classic-related New Year resolutions, it could quietly slide into obscurity without me being held to account when the next year came around. OK, a reader or two might notice and ask how they had worked out, but the chances of anyone bothering to go back and find the issue and tick off what I had and hadn't achieved are slender.
But that doesn't happen in cyberspace. First day back in the office and I have just opened a bevy of e-mails and website contacts reminding me that this time last year I wrote a blog of "promises" for 2012 and suggesting that now is the time to revisit it.
Fair enough. Here goes:
1) I will trim my classics to a number that I can keep on top of, and I will then keep them all roadworthy, or even improve them, rather than just about get by or watch them steadily deteriorate.
Have trimmed the fleet by one, and have made some headway with the works on the others… but not enough. This raises the spectre of another classic having to go to make this resolution feasible. Unthinkable.
2) All my garages will be car habitable and one of the rentals will go completely in 2012.