You can't always get what you want.

This year has been one of transformations. It's weird how some years can pass and nothing will be changed apart from underpants and the occasional partner. Other years involve such massive alterations that by the end of it you hardly recognise yourself.

I'm not talking haircuts and shoes here. Some of these changes are deeper than that. It's like I've spent the last two years lost in the wilderness of the sports department trying to find a lift to somewhere else like Menswear or Household goods. Yes, in the department store of life I've been in the wrong section, or at least hidden behind a big stack of jumpers.

Which is an over complictaed way of saying I'm looking forward to 2009.