About this time last year I wrote this, a review of 2007. In the same style, here comes a review of 2008.
I started the year employed, for a company called Lehman Brothers, and clearly that didn’t last out the whole year. Barclays bought the US bit of Lehman after the bankruptcy, and Nomura eventually bought out most of the rest. I’m now doing pretty much the same job at Nomura. So I did manage to end the year employed, but the axe is looming, so who knows what 2009 will bring.
I followed up my plan to end my reliance on public transport and in early April, I took delivery of Herman. We’ve now done about 5500 miles and have not crashed or collected any parking/driving offences. Hurrah!
Travel-wise, we’ve mostly stuck to the UK, visiting much of Kent, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Cumbria, Snowdonia, Yorkshire and several visits to Bluewater.
We did escape these fair shores briefly, with a visit to Barcelona.
I ended the year with a bit of ill health, but seem to be recovering ok now.
Hopefully, 2009 will have as many or more of the good bits of 2008 and none of the dodgy bits.
Update: Clearly 2008 was a year for memory loss too. My wife reminds me we also had a few shopping days in New York (pre-banking collapse, obviously).
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