We really must...

I don’t normally do New Year’s Resolutions, but maybe I should make a Christmas one?

Maybe I should commit to a 50% reduction in cards I write next year, that contain the phrase "we really must catch up in the coming year!"?

Of course the small print should make it clear that the reduction should be achieved in ‘real terms’ by improved performance in meeting up with friends through the year, rather than a reduction in cards written etc.

Mind you, in order to measure my success or otherwise, I’d obviously have to start a record of who I said what to this year.

That way spreadsheets lie.

Resolution abandoned.