We got to experience the earliest New Year of our lives, a full 11 hours before you folks back home in Ireland. Food, drink, friends and fireworks. What else could you ask for?
Earlier, we'd part-taken in the rehearsal for Kathrina and Barry's wedding. All fairly surreal, dressed in shorts with a priest in sandals. We followed this with a brief kickabout in Gladstone park with a rock of an Aussie football, then a couple of hours of pool in the Exchange Hotel, while the ladies went shopping.
All under a scalding sun in Balmain. Not a bad way to end the year. Not bad at all.
