1s January - Happy New Year!

Thursday 1^st January

Happy 2015, of course.  All is well in Hobart; all is set for a wonderful year.

There were fireworks over the city last night.

A bit blurry but still very pretty

and sparklers on the deck.

Ella

This morning we took three girls to the Taste of Tasmania.

Tessa Ella Holly

They think this is a huge treat; their mother hates the Taste.  I love…some of it.

Always good to see old friends (Lynette and Harry)

The huge echoing shed, although it is very familiar and very dear to me, leave me with a thumping headache now.

I do like the witty stalls

Much better sitting outside in the fresh air, alternately very hot and slightly chilly, to watch a busker. 

My issue with buskers is…were they much much better in the old days??  I remember greatly enjoying very witty buskers, full of verve and skill, juggling chainsaws, making human pyramids constructed from hapless audience members, performing death-defying tricks on the top of wobbly poles.  I have seen two buskers this year and they were mildly amusing but…I very much dislike being told I am not being an engaged audience member, that I am sitting like a blob,, lacking in energy.  I feel like saying, Well if you were a bit funnier I would be very engaged indeed! 

But…the girls thought this particular busker was vastly amusing and clever so maybe I am just getting jaded after many years of sitting outside the Taste of Tasmania sheds with a $5 in my hand…

On the way back to the car I stopped to take a nostalgic photo of my old work place.  The Commonwealth Law Courts and 144 Macquarie Street, up behind the law courts.  My work place(s) for ten years…And do I miss work?  Oh deary me…not at all!!