Happy New Year to All the Little Mice Who Can...

I wish all of you, dear readers, a very Happy New Year full of all good things. I hope we will be safer and friendlier in 2011, and that every one of us will be here for 2012. So, drink carefully, drive only if you're fit, enjoy every minute of 2010 that's left, and ring in the new with a toast surrounded by friends and family.
Here's my Tale of the Little Mice to give you a push into 2011.

Two little mice fell into a bowl of milk. They both started to swim as fast as they could, but they realized that the top edges of the bowl were far too high for them to climb up and out.

The first little mouse soon lost hope, stopped swimming and drowned.

The second little mouse continued to swim in order to keep its head above the milk. The little mouse swam for so long, beating its little feet against the milk, that it became exhausted. At the point of giving up, it felt something harder under its feet. It looked down and saw that, with all the frothing it had made trying to stay afloat, it had beaten the milk into butter.

It soon hopped out over the top of the bowl and saved itself.

I hope you have a lot more butter than milk in 2011. Casey-pops