Looking Back at 2006

Those wonderful people at ‘google’ have recently released a compendium of the top 25 nouns found in the text from their internet search engine in 2006, maybe an interesting thermometer to 2007. It’s noticeable that the top five words mostly relate to time and the need for it. We always have lots of time but it seems we are always busy, all at the same time, if you see what I mean. I suspect the top five words will dominate most of our coming year. 1st Time 2nd Person 3rd Year 4th Way 5th Day The next six words seem to refer to women’s love lives. 6th Thing 7th Man 8thWorld 9th Life 10th ...  Read the complete review

I saw this question and answer thingy and, as I’ve been away from Dooyoo for a couple of months, thought what better way to kick start my return? A look back into 2006 chrisandmark style! 1. What did you do in 2006 that you've never done before? The obvious one has got to be that I turned 30! Never done it before and will never do it again – depressingly the next milestone is 40, but that can wait! I also visited the US which I’ve wanted to do for many years, an opportunity came up for us to spend four nights in New York at a pretty knock-down price so we grabbed it. It was a wonderful break, we came back feeling sooooo refreshed ...  Read the complete review

2006 on rewind Well, I have enjoyed reading all your reviews on 2006 and you have persuaded me to join in the fun! 2006 was a very mixed year for me having being diagnosed with ‘probable MS’ and my Father dying (11 months after my Mum), so it has been eventful, though not really exciting, except for one month which for me was the highlight of the year!! JANUARY I was still living in Spain, and was by now getting worried about certain symptoms I had been encountering so after weeks of trawling through internet sites diagnosing myself with Parkinson’s, Stroke, even the terminal ones (why do people do this?) as well as other illnesses, ...  Read the complete review

I thought I’d start off with some major events of 2006 - not depressing events though - the papers are full of that sort of thing! I thought I’d be a bit frivolous… * Tatana Kucharov, from the Czech Republic, won the title of Miss World 2006. * Best actor at the Oscars was George Clooney and best actress was Reese Witherspoon. * 2006 was designated as International Year of Deserts and Desertification by the United Nations General Assembly, how exciting! * Italy won the World Cup (football in case you were asleep during all that excitement). * W L Gore & Associates were voted the best company to work for (2 years running). * At the ...  Read the complete review

I thought I would join in on this topic and try to use the questions to explain what happened to me in 2006, the highs, lows and bits in the middle! 1. What did you do in 2006 that you've never done before? Stood in front of 30 kids and taught them a lesson - see later questions. 2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Um, can't really remember but I expect it was something along the lines of do more exercise (I'm slim but quite unfit). Although that was also this year's resolution so from that you can see that I have a problem sticking to them! 3. Did anyone close to you ...  Read the complete review