Hot and sticky Kerry Degman

I'm not enjoying the weather at all at the moment, it's so humid and sticky. I'm asthmatic so it's the worst kind of weather for me and I just spent the bank holiday staying at home, sitting around in my underpants in an effort to try and keep cool and avoid any breathing problems. It's a hard life for an asthma sufferer sometimes.

These shirtless photographs of blogaysphere hunk du jour Kerry Degman hanging around in his underpants have nothing to do with my asthma, but he's so delightful to look at and he also looks kinda hot and sticky here. He carries it better than me though. I'm just a wilted mess.

The year I've had...

We were talking about our New Year resolutions at work yesterday and they were the usual mix of dieting, less drinking and smoking etc. I've got an easy one this year: travel. I've always been fine flying, but a couple of years ago I had a few long trips, firstly to South Africa (about a twelve hour flight), then the chav Greek island of Zante (Zakynthos), then Gran Canaria, both about four and a half hour flights. Well, each flight was a bumpy one with plenty of turbulence and I was scared. I mean, really scared. Ok, so I laughed when the teenage girl in the seat next to me starting chucking up into her sick bag, but that wasn't a big enough distraction. The trip to Greece was taken a few days after the attempts to blow up aircraft leaving the UK about eighteen months ago so I guess the combination of that along with the bumpy flights unexpectedly made me scared of flying. It's odd that I've felt that way as I've never been scared before. I flew back and forth to Ireland many times as a child and when I moved to the south of France I flew back and forth to England lots of times without any hesitation.

Anyway, last year was the first time in many years that I didn't travel abroad so I'm determined to get over this irrational fear I have and get up and away somewhere nice and foreign. Oh, I love foreign trips so much! I love trying new things to eat, seeing new places, observing the differences in cultures. As well as foreign trips, I've decided to make more trips back down to London. I haven't been back for at least a couple of years and friends have been bitching and moaning that I haven't been down to see them. So that's the thing I'm going to change: I'm going to shake this fear and haul my ass into some airplanes and travel!

Looking at my life, there's not a lot else that I'd like to change. For once, I'm actually happy with things as they are. Work is good, the whole team works well together and we all get along. I'm fine in myself in that I'm happy with the way I look and feel. I would like my asthma to improve though. That's one other thing I'd like to change. New people I meet ask the inevitable question of why I'm single but that's not something I'm in any hurry to change. I think that it's a good thing to be single sometimes. At least that way you're free and available if you are lucky enough to meet a special person.

How about you, dear readers? Are there any changes you'd like make, any ambitions that you'd finally like to achieve this year? Feel free to share! You can leave a comment below or send an email to the usual address. Let's hope this year's a good one!