I really enjoy my job. I think it's fair to say that I'm happier at work now than I've ever been. And looking through the photo folder from last year, it's not difficult to see why. I thought it might be fun to share some of the best images with you so you can see what I get up to when I'm not writing for ArkSanctum.

Val Ghose has been snapping those little bursts of hope that pop out of the ground in the run up to Spring over at stepping stones of truth. But I had to beat her to it on the snowdrop front (the ones in Val's garden haven't opened yet) - Although, I have to admit, I cheated. These are not this year's blossoms...

If you think the lobsters are big, you should try the haddock!

A boat in Scarborough.

Travels with my camera to Scarborough. No idea who he was.

I don't think we realise when we are happy. There are very few times I can recall actually taking stock and noting that at that precise moment I am feeling joyful - it's generally more of a retrospective thing, a state which we are able to reference by contrast to the times when we are feeling down. "Ah, remember when we went to that rock festival, got high and danced naked? Happy times....!", or "I was happier being a size 12 and having waistbands that didn't leave weals around my gut....", thereby implying that there is some contrast to our current emotional state.

You don't often stop and pause to think, do you, when you're having a fit of the giggles or celebrating a promotion or being congratulated on an academic achievement, 'Wow! I am REALLY happy right now!'? You just don't need to, they all accumulate into a super-pool of good vibrations to offset the troughs of negativity and plateaux of the mundane.

A very interesting video with a particularly good performance from Bob. Who, as always, has the right idea.

Vivien, of course, radiates her goddessness as always...