Happy New Year and thank you for this very rich post - amazingly in your post-Covid state. I'm with you on the Swedish-learning, for myself via Coffee Break Swedish coffeebreaklanguages.co…. As a linguist by degree I have a short fuse for iffy language learning resources (looking at you, Duolingo), but I'm enjoying the Coffee Break stuff. It has the bonus for me of a Scottish-accented co-presenter. Also good for practice in listening is the rather creaky crime series (but with lovely Swedish summer interiors and island life) on Amazon, The Sandhamn Murders. As someone who normally avoids murder and crime stuff I find this bearable.

Last year I failed to re-read Proust so will return to it this year.

Thanks to Yarnstorm, your sock-knitting and encouragement from some of your readers, I have signed up for knitting classes and am finally laying to rest the ghosts of past knitting trauma.