User blog:Yan Hoek/Yan's 2014

So here's a few things I did this year.

January - Was nominated and won a couple of 2014 Stirling awards which is much appreciated. It's nice to know I'm not just ranting into a vacuum.

March - Had a look at my draft second TL Hungary Victorious at Lechfeld. Spell checked it, wrote a couple of sentences and then shelved it for another 6 months. One Day, one day. Probably then wrote 500 words on some random German statelet.

April - Went to Croatia. Read The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia which got me thinking about Southern Europe which I've kinda ignored so far. More things to do.

Wrote 300th article - Venice.

May - Went to Vietnam. Not relevant to anything but it was really excellent. Just saying.

September - Went to Turkey. Read The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. Lots of ideas for horrendously behaved medieval monarchs.

Genuine annoyed that Scotland didn't vote yes. No sentimentality about our outdated union round here!

October - Mrs Hoek found some baby pics from '83 at my parent's house. Checked the dates and realized I would have actually survived Doomsday, albeit I would have grown up speaking Catalan in Pais del Oro.

Couple of days later I checked the dates again. Nope. I'd be dead. Dead dead dead.

November - Finished off all the biogs of the kings of Viken. Feel like I'm getting somewhere...

December - Wrote my 400th article - Cotton Wars. Feeling I should get out more or something.

Spell checked Hungary... again. Yeah that's not going anywhere for a while.

And that was about it. Roll on 2015.