new year greetings from Sydney's entertainment capital at 9.30pm on New Year's Eve.

The noise generated by the 9pm fireworks has subsided - firework THUMPS & human screeching over for a few hours. Fortunately none of my neighbours appear to be having noisy parties, but there is the rumble of voices from nearby, and it is a bit early yet. I hope to be asleep before the real midnight noise starts.

I have a very tiny, almost unmeasurable, hearing difficulty & just for one moment wished I was the proud possessor of 2 hearing aids so I could remove them & miss all the noise.

bah humbug, I'm sure all the noise makers will have sore throats tomorrow & maybe hangovers!!

Of course if I was at a singing session with close friends I would feel differently, but most of my friends are away at festivals celebrating the change of years in a more civlized fashion than is being done around here.

sandra