You saved the best day for last, although I seem to have thought it was champagne week from Christmas morning all the way through to the New Year, my mistake.
And today is .......
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hank37w
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She's just a crack pot.
hank37w
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That looks a bit like my ticket.
. . . . . . . . and as far as firework go, they just don't do it for me these days.
Despite all the advances in technology, electronics, laser light shows, sound systems and so on, it just feels to me that it just doesn't really get any better from one year to the next.
Probably just because I'm getting old it just doesn't look all that dazzling or exciting to me these days and it seems to me that when you've seen one fireworks display that you've seen them all.
It just seems that years ago in a time when things were so much simpler that the fireworks were more exciting, the colours were so much brighter and I guess being in a closer knit community, building a bon fire and where letting off some of your own fireworks was just normal pales into insignificance when compared to the fireworks displays today, but somehow it was all better.
Anyway, hope everyone enjoys their New Years Eve regardless of whatever way they decide to celebrate it, hope you all do it safely and are all here to enjoy a happy and healthy year ahead.
Happy New Year from the New Year Grinch, Oh and don't get me started on those wankers from the ABC. 🤣
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Rock Hopper Steve
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Millions of dollars just adding more pollution to the air, probably causing asthmatics to need more Ventolin on the night.
Preferred cracker night years ago myself as well, bring back lighting and chucking thunders into the street lol, what a racket they made.
Crowds are flocking to their favourite harbourside locations to watch Sydney's New Year's Eve fireworks.
People slept overnight to secure their spots for the grand spectacle, while others began trickling in from dawn, with about 2,000 already in place by 6am.
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hank37w
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I'll bet you blew up a few letter boxes in your time. 🤣
You go girl - 2 days of cold turkey isn't all its cracked up to be, smiley face
Rock Hopper Steve
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Sue me Huckleberry.
that craft took finesse,
Goose neck cannons (of a push bike) were value
i left the party early .was wise . To send a few smoke signals your way Bf
Happy new year ,
Happy new year 2 everybody
Buttface
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Mel C should apologise and give half her pay back for Casey Donavan.
Buttface
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I remember nights we’d stop partying and walk down to that spot to watch the fireworks. Walk straight up to the handrail, maybe half dozen or so picnicers on the grass. Paper notes, good days.
Now you gotta get there at 2am to beat the rush.
1 January
"Ring a Bell Day" in Australia rings out on Thursday, January 1, 2026.
Looking for even more reason to love New Year’s Day? Not only is the first day in January the annual date of the National Bell Festival, it’s also now National Ring a Bell Day! A festival and a holiday? You betcha!
We know, we know. New Year’s Day was already a holiday. But now, the day also formally celebrates bells, bell towers, bell makers, and bell ringers across the globe. Of course, bells ring for many occasions and purposes, whether to commemorate the end of World War I, to call the faithful to worship, or to sound an alarm for a fire. But to ring in the New Year is a long-established tradition. Bells erupt into a cacophony of sound overhead. It’s a way to bring the community together and to look forward with great expectation to the year ahead.
Creating joyful melodies that resonate, the sound that marks moments of celebration, togetherness, and the simple pleasure of sharing happiness - ringing a bell is all that and so much more. By ringing bells on this special day, the idea of community and hope for the future is symbolized.
Ring a Bell Day is a modern informal festival to honour the incredible history of bells all down the ages, and their cultural importance across the world. Today also involves ringing bells and raising awareness of the need to restore many old and valuable bells that have fallen into disrepair.
In cultures all over the world, ringing a bell has had symbolic importance. It has traditionally been used as a call to order, a command, a warning, or to symbolize beginnings and endings. Bells symbolize awakening, transition, protection, and spiritual connection, calling people to worship, marking important events like weddings or funerals, and sometimes even driving away evil spirits with their sound.
However, it’s the symbolism of beginnings and endings that interests people who celebrate Ring a Bell Day. This holiday is observed annually on today, 1 January, and celebrates the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year. Of course, this is only one purpose of this holiday. Another reason for its existence is to help restore bells and bell towers to their former glory.
Once you hear a bell, you always remember the exact sound, the pitch - there’s almost a mystical feeling and purpose to the bell ringing. And the bell and its ringing are also common metaphors within our language.
"Ring a bell" quotes often play on the idiom (meaning familiar but vague memory) or use bells for symbolism (beginnings, endings, calls to action), with famous lines like Leonard Cohen's "Ring the bells that still can ring" or Oscar Hammerstein's "A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it" encouraging action and expressing meaning.
If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is. Much like the sound of a bell we hear, the oral use of the expression in language takes us to a familiar place in our memory. Then there are "alarm bells" (warning), or "bells and whistles" (extras), while also referencing literal sounds like wedding, church, or school bells. Or the expression "With bells on" being an idiom meaning to do something or go somewhere with great enthusiasm, eagerness, and excitement - like maybe getting to the next home game of the Wests Tigers!
Bells are part of all of us, whether we hear them or not – they’re the rhythm of being alert, of timely reminders and all the many uses the messages within bell ringing convey across our communities.
Keep on ringing!
“Ring out the old, ring in the new”
“There's some bells you can't unring.”
“If you can hear it, heed it”
“For whom the bell tolls”
"Ring a Bell Day" in Australia rings out on Thursday, January 1, 2026.
Looking for even more reason to love New Year’s Day? Not only is the first day in January the annual date of the National Bell Festival, it’s also now National Ring a Bell Day! A festival and a holiday? You betcha!
We know, we know. New Year’s Day was already a holiday. But now, the day also formally celebrates bells, bell towers, bell makers, and bell ringers across the globe. Of course, bells ring for many occasions and purposes, whether to commemorate the end of World War I, to call the faithful to worship, or to sound an alarm for a fire. But to ring in the New Year is a long-established tradition. Bells erupt into a cacophony of sound overhead. It’s a way to bring the community together and to look forward with great expectation to the year ahead.
Creating joyful melodies that resonate, the sound that marks moments of celebration, togetherness, and the simple pleasure of sharing happiness - ringing a bell is all that and so much more. By ringing bells on this special day, the idea of community and hope for the future is symbolized.
Ring a Bell Day is a modern informal festival to honour the incredible history of bells all down the ages, and their cultural importance across the world. Today also involves ringing bells and raising awareness of the need to restore many old and valuable bells that have fallen into disrepair.
In cultures all over the world, ringing a bell has had symbolic importance. It has traditionally been used as a call to order, a command, a warning, or to symbolize beginnings and endings. Bells symbolize awakening, transition, protection, and spiritual connection, calling people to worship, marking important events like weddings or funerals, and sometimes even driving away evil spirits with their sound.
However, it’s the symbolism of beginnings and endings that interests people who celebrate Ring a Bell Day. This holiday is observed annually on today, 1 January, and celebrates the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year. Of course, this is only one purpose of this holiday. Another reason for its existence is to help restore bells and bell towers to their former glory.
Once you hear a bell, you always remember the exact sound, the pitch - there’s almost a mystical feeling and purpose to the bell ringing. And the bell and its ringing are also common metaphors within our language.
"Ring a bell" quotes often play on the idiom (meaning familiar but vague memory) or use bells for symbolism (beginnings, endings, calls to action), with famous lines like Leonard Cohen's "Ring the bells that still can ring" or Oscar Hammerstein's "A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it" encouraging action and expressing meaning.
If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is. Much like the sound of a bell we hear, the oral use of the expression in language takes us to a familiar place in our memory. Then there are "alarm bells" (warning), or "bells and whistles" (extras), while also referencing literal sounds like wedding, church, or school bells. Or the expression "With bells on" being an idiom meaning to do something or go somewhere with great enthusiasm, eagerness, and excitement - like maybe getting to the next home game of the Wests Tigers!
Bells are part of all of us, whether we hear them or not – they’re the rhythm of being alert, of timely reminders and all the many uses the messages within bell ringing convey across our communities.
Keep on ringing!
“Ring out the old, ring in the new”
“There's some bells you can't unring.”
“If you can hear it, heed it”
“For whom the bell tolls”
Buttface
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hank37w
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I actually sat up last night and watched the fireworks.
It was just too much, way over the top, thought it was much better when things were a bit simpler, can't see the value in the laser light stuff either, really doesn't add anything to it.
Obviously, the majority of people really like it and I'm not saying it's bad, it's just that this never ending pursuit of making it bigger and better every year has gotten to the stage where it is now over done and I don't really think they can actually come up with something to top it each year.
