happy new year

Just a quick entry to say Happy New Year to you all, and wish you all a grand 2005. I’ve not made any resolutions, at least none that I can speak of here, and any of the usual resolution suspects are, I suspect, only made in order to get that guilty thrill when they are vigorously cast aside within the first week or so.

The photo off to the right there is a picture of the party down on the Wellington waterfront at which I saw in the big rolling-over-of-the-numbers. Read on for more photos of an almost relavent nature…

Here's one of my favourite photos of one of New Zealand's Pohutukawa trees. These are a kind of Kiwi Christmas tree, as they flower a beautiful red colour in late December. This one is slap-bang in the middle of town and brightens up The Terrace nicely. I've also added two slices of Pohutukawa flowers as potential (randomly chosen) background images for the far right-hand side of these pages. I think they work quite well.

This is just a photo of one of the main shopping areas in town. I like it because the old bank building with the clock on the top is kinda cool (in a brown ceramic tiled kinda way) and that the big SEASONS GREETINGS sign on the State insurance tower is there in the distance.