New Year's Day

We opted to retire to bed quite early as we had no immediate plans to watch fireworks. Just before, at 10 pm a nearby display was set off which gave us quite a good view but, alas, no photos. We did try a long exposure to capture a neighbour's boat illuminations however.

At midnight we were awoken by the sounds of innumerable firework displays. None were especially near but almost all around us and the noise was substantial.

OK, so the photos are more impressionistic than a better setting on the camera would have captured but unfortunately Mike could not find which one to us in time!

Even ignoring the huge cost of the London Eye display, the amount of money sent up in smoke over London last night does not bear thinking about! Cut backs - what cut backs?

Overnight was much warmer than the last three and we also had a little lie-in. Not much to do today although we did manage a short walk down the towpath to pick up a newspaper.