I realised this year that, over the course of the last few annual
retrospective posts, it has metamorphosed from a set of lists -
highlights, disappointments, etc.
- with a brief introduction, into a massive wall of text detailing some events from the year and going off on various tangents, followed by
the standard lists...
...This has become increasingly difficult -
not to say downright depressing - to work on, even when I start early
in the year and continually add to it, because there's often an update to
specific information that necessitates great swathes of the wall of
text to be rewritten, sometimes more than once. It's been enough of a
struggle to work on regular blog posts -
writing about the toys I've been collecting since the 1980s - which,
over the course of most of this year, I just haven't been enjoying as much as
I used to. I managed a decent number of posts in September but, overall, this has been the leanest year since I first started this blog!
As a result, this year, I'm going back to basics, and just presenting the
lists. Honestly, if you'd seen the original, full version of this post about
this dumpster fire of a year, you'd be thanking me right now.
So, without further ado...
