Thursday, December 31/2015

New Year's Eve, and for once we don't even really give lip service to the possibility of going down to the waterfront. Free wine and beer with the fireworks and probably a young and festive atmosphere. But better quality drink here, and quite cosy. The clincher is that the fireworks - which we can see from our sitting room (although not quite as well as if we were able to remove one particular building from the line of sight) - are shorter every year. So online greeting exchanges as the new year moves west from Australia. Midnight North American central time 8 AM here. Time the fireworks. Right- only three minutes so much better here - and raise a glass.