Happy New Year! I hope everyone had happy holidays and celebrated the start of the new year in style. More importantly I hope everyone is adhering to their new year’s resolutions, whatever they are?

welovelocal.com has a few of its own resolutions it will be aiming to stick to over the coming year - well, four to be exact, a pretty manageable amount. This is the definitive list that the team will be trying to achieve in 2008:

1. Recycle more, much more! Cut down on packaging and take more trips to Unpackaged, they truly are an inspirational company.
2. Keep trying new places. We are based in London, a city with an abundance of great bars and pubs so we have no excuse to keep going to the same watering hole for our after work drinks every time (shame on us).
3. Keep shopping locally. I know we go on about it, and at times it is hard, but every penny spent in the local economy really is a penny well spent.
4. To review more. To document every great place we sample - bi it a pet shop or a hair dressers we must remember to tell others about it. Some of the welovelocal team are guiltier than others - Dan and Max you know who you are!

Hopefully by publishing them publicly on the blog we will be more inclined to keep them.

Good luck everyone, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for all of us!

Photo by Happysnapper over on flickr