New Year, New Look! New thinking

As it's 2006 I thought that along with a new year I would change the look of my blog too! hope you all like it!
My new year's resolution this year is to not make one because i'm rubbish at keeping them, so I'm gonna save myself the hassle of having to do so, or fooling myself into thinking that I can, so that's why I haven't got one.
So happy new year and all that jazz!

Here's what I got up to, it was quite fun going into London this year, and watching the fireworks at the London Eye (or as close as you could get basically, alongside the crowds!) Firstly we had a nice time in Hyde Park, going to the funfair, going on the Waltzing Waltzers and tehn the 'dodgems' that were never really dodgems but having the true nature of the other name of 'bumper' cars; these people that owned them didn't tell us off for bumping into each other, even having head on collisions at times! My worst hit was actually from Jessica! which I found to be quite amusing as we were also with Daniel, Jonathan and Craig!
Then we tried sushi!(I quite enjoyed it, I had a crab roll thingy!) then we sauntered down towards Diana's memorial which was difficult to see in the dark!!! So we gave up that idea and headed towards the Eye.

Festivals and Eve's have always held great superstition as the world is temporarily turned upside down; Shakespeare has encapsulated thsi idea within his play Twelfth Night and I'm sure that others have written about it too. Painters have captured this in a movement called the Carnivalesque- see Mikhail Bakhtin for more info!!!
The idea that these festivals are a kind of forced passing into another age, (or a new year in this case) strange things are seen to take place. We as people put upon an act at times, and it was beloeved that this 'Theatrical' self comes out at this time of festivity.
Some people have called this the 'Threshold' or a cool Englishy word is 'Liminality' (which basically means the same thing) which makes sense, because 31st December is the threshold to 2006.
Anyway enough of my ramblings! I should really be doing some work! (as usual!)