James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder, Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling, Hilary Mantel, The Giant O'Brien. Neil Hegarty, The Story of Ireland: In Search of a New National Memory, Kate Atkinson, A God In Ruins, Eric Foner, Reconstruction, Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train, Peter Ackroyd, Civil War, Karl-Ove Knausgaard, Some Rain Must Fall, John Julius Norwich(ed) The Great Cities in History, Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children, Neil Forsyth, Delete This At Your Peril,??, Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Melvyn Bragg, Now Is the Time

3 months without an update, although so much has happened, the election of Donald J Trump as President in particular. I can hardly remember some of these books, and there is at least one work of fiction between 'Delete This At Your Peril' and 'White Trash' where I can't even remember the name. I do worry about my short-term memory, I struggle to remember so much. We played Scattergories over Christmas and my mind went blank under pressure. I still do ok on the crossword though, so hopefully I'm not deteriorating too much.

My running is though, I hardly did any in 2016 and am struggling on Park Run now - my current times are comparable with when Freddie first did it two years ago, and his friend Abel is about 5 minutes faster than me now. Not sure what has happened, it could be psychological, it could be that I'm playing Pokemon Go as I run round now rather than using Runkeeper. . .

Today is the first day back at work after the Christmas Break. Work has been good in 2016, although my role has changed completely and now its basically admin work. The pay is good, the day goes quickly and I get out of work on time though, so I've no motivation to move to a more challenging role. There's so much uncertainty about Vodafone Group with Brexit coming up, so who knows what could happen. Were living relatively frugally and paying off the mortgage, so hopefully we'll be ok.