With a new year drawing perilously - or not so perilously - close, I thought it reasonable to look back on what the second half of 2015 has had in store for me. I take the chance now, before all that 'looking forward' and 'seeing what the future holds' frenzy takes hold in the first week of January. You know the sort: everyone's plans and visions for the year ahead are laid out in ambitious fullness, only to realise about two weeks later that it sort of probably won't happen.