Happy New Year 2016

[Canny lass]

DO NOT DISTURB UNTIL 2017!

Merrymakers, make merry quietly.
Revellers, revel softly.
First Footers, please enter in your slippers.
See in the New Year for me please, and bid it wait until breakfast, when I shall be ready to greet it.

Tummy bug stopped play for me but Happy New Year to Bedders' revellers whereever you may be!

[Pete]

And a Happy New Year to you CL

[threegee]

"bug stopped play for me"

There is "something going around" in town here too, and I probably caught it during the 4.5 hour+ communal Christmas lunch (only in Italy!).  Mrs 3G seems to have escaped with only an early light cough (is this positive for the 3G family gene pool you ask?)

Anyway.. it's now just over a full decade (6th December 2006) since I arrived here permanently in "the Mediterranean outback" from the total civilisation of Bedders, and HOW things have changed here since!  Maybe some of the details later.

A Happy New Year to everyone!

[Malcolm Robinson]

Happy New Year to everyone.......... 

[Maggie/915]

And Happy New Year from  2017

[Vic Patterson]

Happy New Year to all our friends, wishing you all the best of wealth, health and happiness for 2017.

[Canny lass]

Received this yesterday. It certainly made me think

So you think 2016 was terrible? Think again. It wasn’t all bad.  Sure, some famous people we liked are no longer with us but some good – even fantastic – things happened: 

Ebola vaccine now available
Child Mortality - Down across the globe
Survival rate in pancreatic cancer sufferers is up 9%
Gene responsible for ALS found
Volunteers in India planted 50 Million trees in 24 hours
Suicide rates down globally
The Ozone layer is repairing itself
The Rabbinical assembly issued a resolution affirming the rights of trans and non conforming individuals

Mind controlled robot arms available

Wild tigers numbers up  -  for the first time in 100 years!
Giant Pandas - No longer endangered
A solar powered plane did a world trip
Global Malaria down by 60%
Measles eradicated  from the Americas
93% of the world's children learned to read and write - the highest percentage in human history
China plans to be completely renewable by 2020 and has a global plan for by 2050
Huge global push in renewable energy
Norway committed to 0 deforestation
Every major grocer and fast food chain in the U.S pledged to use only cage free eggs by 2025
Manatees - No longer endangered
Wild Wolves - Back in Europe
Wild Salmon spawning in the Connecticut river for the first time since the American revolution
Columbian white tailed deer - no longer endangered
Green Sea Turtles - no longer endangered
Sea World no longer breeding captive killer whales
Humpback Whales - no longer endangered
Global aid - up by 7%
Americas most generous year ever in charity and aid
China's most generous year ever in charity and aid at $15 Billion

 

 Take some time to look at the good and beauty in this world, good things are happening, support them, be part of them.

[Canny lass]

... and I personally would like to add to that list ...

Ukraine walloped Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest!

Edited January 1, 2017 by Canny lass

[Malcolm Robinson]

Need to pinch that bit of positivity Canny lass

[Canny lass]

Your right there, Malcolm. There's far too much 'reporting' of all things negative. I hadn't heard of half of those positive happenings.