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I made it into 2022 awake. After doing some reading and knitting I decided to go back down to the rest of the family and found that DiL and granddaughter were already asleep in the guestroom, and son number three was fast asleep in front of the TV. So I poured myself a glass of champagne, snitched a cigar out of the humidor and joined hubby in the conservatory. The constant banging of fireworks kept me awake until midnight, when we are used to watching the brilliant fireworks of the professional pyrotechnist who lives up the hill (he´s the one with the roosters, which do extra hours during night). Only that there was no firework at midnight. We waited, and waited some more, and just when we were about to give up the first New Year rocket got fired, and many more followed- fifteen minutes late. We dashed back outside and were in awe. There´s a slight difference between firework sortiments bought in a DIY shop and a professional one! I got up very late, fired the stove then put the roast in- blessedly number two told me in time that he, too, would come for lunch with his family. So family number two and three were in the zoo having fun and I was doing the cooking- again. At least hubby picked up daughter mine, who had spent the night with her best friends in town (the bigger one). And whom did she meet when the girls went to a popular pond to watch the town´s fireworks? Son of a neighbour, unvaccinated, together with his teenage son, coming out from the plush restaurant located at the pond. Access only when vaccinated? Forget about it! Closing time for gastronomy at ten? Forget about it, too! Those rules are for common people only! After lunch Cassian and I went upstairs for a nap. This boy loves me even more now that I did his favourite side dish for lunch- marmelade. Actually I had made chutney with plums, but he loves the combination of sweet-sour-salty so much! The spicy part I left out, or none but daughter and me would have eaten the marmelade. Tuesday will be the day when grandchild will stay with us overnight. He will be very disappointed, because he was totally ecstatic about the toy kitchen Elsa had gotten as a Christmas present. He has not yet realised that the kitchen is Elsa´s and will be off tomorrow :((

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Professional fireworks are a thing of beauty. There were lots and lots of amateur ones here where we live but we didn't see anything of them — just heard all the noise.

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There´s been less banging than usual, but enough for me to get entertained until midnight. I had quite a good view at the ongoings from the conservatory!