As is the tradition on years with a zero at the end, I’m taking this opportunity to look back over the last ten years.

It’s strange really – in some ways, the turn into 2000 seems like only yesterday, in others you count back and realise just how much has actually happened in that decade…

Ten years ago, I was up in Manchester, in a very different relationship, working on a contract at the Equal Opportunities Commission, living in a rented house in a grim bit of East Manchester, and beginning to realise I was nearly 30. (And as an aside, that must mean I’m heading towards 40 now. Fuck.) D4D™ didn’t exist, wasn’t even a glint in the eye.

In the last ten years I’ve

• made friends
• lost friends
• written a shocking amount of rubbish here
• changed relationships (including a couple of very quiet intervening years)
• moved four times (New place in Manchester, Bracknell, Attleborough, Here)
• bought a house with Herself
• had more jobs and contracts than I care to think about
• seen the world change in many ways – not least through the impact of terrorism
• Closed a business
• Opened a new business
• Been utterly stuffed by a fuckstick accountant
• Inherited insane animals
• moved on
• stayed the same

I wonder what the next ten will bring? Lots more changes, I suspect.