MARILYN CORNWELL: movement

Of course we make New Year's Resolutions - consciously and unconsciously.

Why do I think we do this? We inhabit a constantly turning earth at 460 metres per second (that's 1,000 miles an hour). Then it is travelling around the sun at 30 kilometres per second or 67,000 miles per hour. The sun is orbiting - and at what speed? At 200 - 220 km/second. Don't forget the galaxy. All that mass means that everything is moving, drifting and flowing in the direction of the greatest gravitational attraction. Not only our galaxy, but all the nearby galaxies are going to experience a bulk flow due to gravitational force. Everywhere we look in space we see the 2.725 K radiation background that's left over from the Big Bang. And with analysis of that, we know that we are moving through space. We're going somewhere.

So make those New Year's Resolutions to move forward with your life - be at one with a moving existence.

Don't let the internet drag you down with the stories of failure in just 17 days, or statistics of an 80 percent failure rate.

Perhaps popular Resolutions aren't for you. But what about the rest? I went searching and came up with two funny ones. From Good Housekeeping: Become a plant owner. From the New York Times: Clean your phone! It's filthy!

Do you wonder if someone made a New Year's Resolution to do something in order to get in the Guinness World Records? James C. Rees has the record for the longest ownership of a vehicle from new - 61 years, 7 months and 4 days. Did James decide on Friday May 23rd 1958 that he would own this car as his 'forever car'? I found a site to calculate the day of decision.

Who can guess what New Year's Resolutions were made at Nelles Manor in Grimsby in the 1800s. We don't seem to have kept any record of New Year's Resolutions through the ages.

Here are two of the actors from the summer re-enactment event at Nelles Manor.