I thought long and hard about whether or not I wanted to move my historical blog posts over to this new site after my long hiatus, but in the end I decided to not rewrite history.

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Three years and one day ago was the last time I wrote in this blog. So much has changed in that time, but I’ve never felt the block on writing shift until recently.

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It’s now been seven years since I started this blog. Life is very different now, lots of changes have happened, and I continuously avoid writing down any the major ones despite the catharcism that I find in writing.

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Charlie is almost five now. Sometimes I can’t believe that he is so old already. Where is my little puppy?! In truth, I’m looking back at his puppyhood with rose-tinted glasses; he was an absolute shit for the first 18 months or so of his life. And now, he’s not the only dog in the household (although if you ask him, he’s still the top dog).

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For the first few years of writing this blog, every New Year I wrote a fairly honest and accurate account of how I’d fared with my goals for the previous year, and wrote down what I wanted to achieve in the upcoming 12 months. For the last couple of years though, I’ve completely neglected to maintain this tradition. So, this is the first post of Part Two in the New Year New Me series.

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Way back in 2015, a few months before I even started writing in this blog, a somewhat-naive 23-year-old version of myself bought his first flat, a nice wee two-bed on a quiet street in west Edinburgh. Life has changed immensely since I bought that flat, and I’m now in the process of selling it, ready for the next chapter of my life to start.

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