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	Sunday, 1 January 2012
	Happy New 2012
	by Tav

Happy New Year

London 2012

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Fran Oborski 1 Jan 2012

Happy New Year everyone. Think my first resolution had better be not to mix Polish beer, champagne and vodka in future. However sleeping it off worked and I was back to normal at St. Ambrose Club today! Hope everyone who partied last night had as enjoyable a time as we did at St. Ambrose, Polish contingent had enough food to cope with the veritable 5000!

Tav 1 Jan 2012

I saw the New Year in differently this time, we dropped the kids off and we went to London to cope with the veritable 250,000! No drink for me though, I was driving.

Jonathan Cooper 3 Jan 2012

A rather belated Happy New Year folks!

Neil Harman 3 Jan 2012

The London fireworks were awesome on the telly this year. Best of all I saw. A test for the Olympics perhaps? Happy New Year to everyone.

Tav 3 Jan 2012

It was certainly better being there. An early set of fireworks were the Olympic rings in the sky. An amusing sight that night was the sea of iPhones, video cameras and Blackberries held up by a hand each, all showing mini screens of the firework display. Most of them were too busy recording the fireworks to see the display from Big Ben.

Neil Harman 4 Jan 2012

This, I am a little obsessed with. When touring gigs over the last ten years, I used to do spot lights or camera and the fact that people pay to go to these shows and then watch them through a 2 inch screen is amazing, weird even. When on camera I always used to focus on a small screen and then transition to the real thing on stage. I see it all the time on the telly now. It seems most cameramen are obsessed with that shot and the video director used to love it. I have a recorded Enrique Iglesias show as a portfolio of shots if the local TV want to see my shooting

Jonathan Cooper 4 Jan 2012

One of my many New Year resolutions was to back off considerably from my armchair activities - "ditch the keyboard, and get a life"! This New Year I hoped would be a new fresh fun start without the added distraction of the gloom that continues to hang over the world. However, only four days into 2012 and my original determinations are fast diminishing with all this praise for the fantastic fireworks that embraced London and other capital cities around the globe when 2011 became 2012. I love fireworks and fun - HONESTLY I DO; and I thought the London display was fantastic - not as good as Sydney's - but impressive all the same. I watched the displays from the comfort of my armchair, (naturally), and I'm sorry for being a miserable old grump and spoiling the party here, but taking all things into consideration, wasn't blowing God knows how much money into the air to see in 2012 just a tad ridiculous? Even poor old Big Ben came into the same form of abuse not seen since it was attacked during the Blitz in 1941. But seriously, has the world gone totally and utterly mad by welcoming a tirade of a 12 minute expensive firework display in times when many people are struggling to make ends meet? (Just a footnote here: I was chuckling away to myself as I typed this comment.......Jesus Christ, I'm a miserable old sod, I really am) x

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