UNLIKE worldly-wise Yorkatt (Evening Press, Dec 29), I am making a dozen-or-so New Year's resolutions. Omitting the more grandiose among them, here are just three... with comments on my ability to keep them.

1. Stay calm: fair chance as dramas are exhausting.

2. Pay attention to skin-care and deportment in an attempt to combat that emerging-from-a-shell look ... fine on tortoises: will definitely keep this one.

3. Avoid spending so much time in the doghouse by being more tactful: no chance, apparently.

Margaret Lawson,

Aldborough House,

The Groves, York.

Updated: 10:40 Thursday, January 03, 2002