And a rotten new year...

So welcome Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen and rabid gorillas, welcome to the first post of the year 2007, and may it be a rotten one at that! Let's see, they've painted the school pink, the neighbours' cats have dug up the lawn, the local church is under siege and I'm sitting here writing about it in some intentionally-humourous-but-didn't-quite-turn-out-to-be-that sort of way.

And that's just the good part...