Editorials

After waiting for two minutes he decided to make for the breakfast room, but she pointed emphatically towards another area of the lobby where a staff member appeared and demanded his coat, presumably to hang it in a wardrobe. On the way to his table he passed the breakfast buffet, whose selection of fruit and fruit juices bore no relationship to the room prices. He ordered a freshly-squeezed orange juice, and for the 47th time this year it annoyed him to be presented with preserved orange juice instead, served up as if it were something precious. Angrily he drank a large glass of Coke.

What am I doing during the run-up to New Year's Eve? I am mulling over the events of the past year and considering where I have made mistakes, where I have treated somebody wrongly or overlooked somebody during all the hectic day-to-day activity. I can think of several – which gives me a guilty conscience – and accordingly these greetings especially apply to them.