Threatens rain but more or less doesn't. That is it rains, but only while we're having coffee and sheltered by the restaurant patio roof. Windy but not cold at all. Some people in swimming and the sea probably warmer than Ontario lakes in summer. Stop at the animal shelter charity shop on the way back, where the Thai woman that works there on Fridays tells us that she and her husband stayed home on New Year's Eve because the celebrations aren't what they were. No music this year, she says. Timed the fireworks from our window, I say - three minutes. Glad we celebrated chez nous, although a little nostalgia for the days when we'd take a bottle of sparkling wine and a couple of glasses out into the throng along the beach and join the ooohs and aaahs.
