New Year Resolutions

by Margaret Watson

Bill Vaughan said ‘An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.’  Although people have been celebrating New Years since the ancient Babylonians, at least 4,000 years ago, I don’t suppose you have yet thought about New Year 2008 unless you are either Scottish or one of those organised people who have already got a new diary and dates filled in for the next six months.