For the record, I thought this was going to turn out as one of my worst ever pics but now I see it out of the camera, I really like it. It’s the combination of smoothness, colour and light refraction. It works for me.

Anyway, I need to “get something off my chest”. I’m quitting PAD. I’ve been considering it for a while and now I’ve come to the decision that I’m going to stop. I’ve been doing it non-stop now for almost five years, without missing a single day and that’s plenty in my view.

I have mulled over whether to just stop today or whether to get to a milestone before stopping and decided that the 7th March will be my last day. That will be exactly five years. I could have gone on for the 2000 days, which I think would be in around Sept/Oct but I’ve decided that the “cost” of the extra 200 or so days is too high, whether counted in beans or time.

This has taken me around one hour each day, sometimes more and of course sometimes less. Once I’m back at work and once I’m better, I think I can find a better use for that hour.

I didn’t want to go out on a low, which is why I’ve decided on keeping on until March – hopefully my life will be back on an even keel by then and I will be feeling happier, fitter and generally better so the tone of my postings hopefully will reflect that.

So, unless I have a major change of heart between now and then, I’m on my countdown.

Last year, I was marking time.