What was your New Years Resolution?

On January 1st 2008 did you make a New Years Resolution?

I was presenting the Breakfast show on BBC Radio Suffolk and announced that my resolution was to visit somewhere new or try something different every month for a year. (After all, who says NYR should be boring or worthy?)

In January I went to see a Bollywood film at Cineworld in Ipswich. The film, Welcome, was very funny, very colourful .....and very long!

In February I went to the Suffolk Record Office to a "coffee and cake" lecture on the history of policing in the county, which was excellent. Then in March I braved a VERY cold day to drive to Newmarket to do the tour of the National Stud. A beautiful setting, lots of gorgeous foals with spindly legs and knobbly knees, and plenty of details on what male horses do to female horses at a stud!! (Don't let that put you off - very tastefully phrased - so a place definitely worth a visit).

This weekend, for April, I have been to the Rare Breeds Farm at Baylam. I have lived in Suffolk all my life and, to my shame, have never been before. It really came to my attention when sadly it was the site of the first case of Bluetongue virus in the UK last year... and I was presenting the breakfast show when the news broke.

It was really the huge sympathetic response from callers that made me realise I should visit.

Now all open again and looking wonderful in the April showers, the farm really deserves it's claim to be one of the best attractions in Suffolk. Ciara and Oscar (3 and 1) loved the lambs and the hens especially, and Ben (14) spent ages feeding, then stroking the cows. You can get really close to all the animals and every child gets a bag of food to feed them. There are hand washing facilities, a tea room and gift show and a great time was had by all.

Now - just got to decide what I do or where I go in May.......