3 minutes into 2018 and I have managed to stay awake to watch the magnificent fireworks display from Sydney on TV.
With the Sydney harbour bridge as the centre piece the beautiful Sydney harbour dazzling with light.
On a hot and humid Australian night with the windows and doors open to catch the sea breezes I could hear the distant sound of the Gold Coast fireworks from down on the beach and the neighbours shouting greetings to each other as another year starts.
To my blogging friends from around the world I hope your dreams and hopes for 2018 come true.
Good night….
Living in Paradise... 
Oh, gosh, I shan’t be waiting up to see the New Year in here! Happy New Year! 🍾🍾
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Well it still got here even if we didn’t stay up bleary eyed waiting for it…
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Absolutely!
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👍
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All the best for 2018 🎉🎉🍾🥂
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And to you too…
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Still a few hours of 2017 left for us! All the best to you for 2018.
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You’ll be into it by now. Did you stay up to see it in?
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Just home and off to bed now (13:30)! Happy New Year.
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Ha ha, got to bed and thought, 01:30! 13:30 would be epic beyond my capabilities. That’s what you get for commenting after a night on the champagne 🍾🥂
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🤪😃
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Sydney always puts on such a display, but the crowds must be horrendous! HNY PP xx
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The crowds are very off putting, much better to watch it on TV, but then you don’t get that exciting atmosphere. We were there on NYD back in 1996 (I think!) Had a very memorable time, danced the night away, but we were much younger then…
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I often wish that one country would be brave enough to say, “we are not having a fireworks display this year, instead the money we would have spent is going to support the homeless in our country”. I recall that before the millennium all we used to see was Big Ben and people in the fountain in Trafalgar Square! The firework displays now are rather obscene.
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I do agree with you Jude all that money going up in smoke and each country now trying to outdo each other…
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Exactly. I have just watched the London fireworks (well 2 and a half hours ago – must be time for bed!) and they are the same every year, with horrible music to add to it. Just needs someone to say, ENOUGH!
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Should start a #stop fireworks on Facebook!!! It might go viral…
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Well I shall have to leave that to you as I don’t do FB!!
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Me neither. I just lurk around checking what others get up to….
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Fantastic and I was tucked up in bed ZZzzzz and missed the fire works on the bridge that is the same age as me. But this morning I cycled to the beach for a dip in the ocean in time to see the sun rise over the ocean. Have a wonderful 2018🙏🙏🏿. I had to proof read this comment to see i did not put an F instead of a T.🐨😎
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And I was still in bed when you went for your swim…
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Oh, HAPPY NEW YEAR! We still have nine and a half hours of last year to go.
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well enjoy the last few hours…
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Only four hours left. If you happen to remember my article on “Birthday”, I happen to be near the beach where my friend Steven and I were on the first day of the year. I don’t remember why we were in Capitola on New Year’s Day, or why no one else was with us that morning. We went down to the beach and I stepped out into the water. I am going to do that about ten when I finish here, so I can end the year where I started it.
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Yes I do remember that moving post about the ginkgo leaf. I hope you managed to get to the water and the weather was warmish and you celebrated your memories
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Done. I am inside now. Seventeen minutes to go.
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Happy new year Tony as it crosses into your area
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
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Love your photos from Sydney – they do a wonderful display.
Thank you for showing us more of your wonderful country.
All the best to you & Jack this coming year! xx
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Thanks Del, all the best to you too
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Good on you! My husband woke me at midnight and said “What’s that noise?” my reply…”Crackers dear.”…we must be getting older.
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Hahaha…
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Happy New Year to you and yours! Thank you for 2017.
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Thanks Leya and the same to you
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