Thanks for asking. Yes, I did get one - the cheap £40 one I mentioned at the top of the thread. I've also acquired an electric fiddle that my husband found on a market stall for £12. He cleaned the pickups and it seems to work well.
I started to play back in the summer, but with one thing and another I haven't picked it up in a while, so I'm still very much at beginner stage. A very good friend of ours is a member of a Morris side and we followed them quite a bit through the summer. I managed to have a chat with their fiddle player, a retired music teacher, who has given me some good 'starting off' advice, namely to just learn to play scales on each string before trying to relate them to written notes, and not having to stick the instrument under my chin and play with my elbows in the air like a classical violinist.
Interestingly enough, for a sax player who constantly needs the crutch of written music, learning scales without it isn't so difficult. I'm hoping it'll rub off onto other things eventually.
I'm not a maker of resolutions, new year's or otherwise, but perhaps I should make a concerted effort to get fiddling this year.