Looking Back & Looking Forward

Alternative title was "A Year in Numbers" ... but not all of this is numbers. I do start with numbers tho. It's an odd sort of review of 2017, looking at things I did rather than things that happened - mostly coz the year was bookended by depressing events (it began with my mother dying of dementia in a care home, and ended with my cat terminally ill with cancer and having a somewhat problematic recovery from the operation that we'd hoped would save his life but didn't (he has months left, but there is an end point in view if that makes sense)).

( this gets long, with lists of things like books )