Notes to self for the New Year 2016

1. No matter what happens, do NOT assume the brace position. Given the amount of crash landings imminent on the horizon this will only lead to rigour mortis setting in. Instead follow Wonder Woman's example and engage deflector shields to ward off as many of the slings and arrows of fear and wilful ignorance as possible, and keep moving.
   
   
2. Look up. Find other people looking up. Go have coffee with them. But do NOT drink red espresso. Whoever thought of running rooibos tea through a coffee machine, adding milk and honey, should never be let into an independent coffee house ever again.
   
   
3. Go to the nail salon once a month. It is the last refuge of organic conviviality in East London.