New Year's Day

9:30 fireworks - Lakes Entrance 2011

Well, we saw the New Year in at Lakes Entrance as usual.  I felt so much better this year than I did last year.  There was no point where I wished the evening was over so we could go home.  I even walked from the caravan park, where Mark and Janine are staying, down to the foreshore.  Bill had a sausage and onion for tea, I had proffertjes (Dutch pancakes) with lemon and sugar.  We met up with Mark and Janine - Brittany and her friend Danielle were left to their own devices.  Oakley and Mitchell were with Mark and Janine.  We saw the fireworks at 9:30, after which the others all went back to the caravan park.  The fireworks were lovely as usual.  We went for a walk to get a coffee and some cold chips - should have taken the chips back and insisted on hot ones, but we just ate them.  It didn't seem too long before it was time for the midnight display.  This went for nearly 15 minutes and was very good.  The finale was especially spectacular. I even walked back to the car at the conclusion.  I felt so much better than last year!
Video of part of the 9:30 display.

Another Year Over

Well, it is the 31st December - another year has flown by.  I guess when your life is measured in three week blocks that is bound to happen.
Overall this has been a good year.  Once I got over the horrible side-effects of the slightly higher dose of Xeloda I began to feel quite good.  From about September on I have felt the best I have done for three and a half years.  That was marred somewhat by my sore shoulder/arm - but now that seems to be on the improve also, thanks to a combination of Patrick the chiropractor, Naveen Joshi for the only painkillers that had any effect (Endep) and which also seem to have helped enormously with sleeping, and Alpa the physiotherapist.  I am eating better, to the extent that I have put back some of the weight I lost over the past couple of years.  Bill thinks that's a good thing, I wish it had stayed off.
Tonight we wil go over to Lakes Entrance for the fireworks.  We'll see Mark and Janine and the kids for at least the 9:30 display, but will probably stay on the foreshore by ourselves for the midnight display as we have done in past years.

2010 fireworks at Lakes Entrance

Farewell 2011!