NEW YEAR, FUTURE; I SEE IT NOW! 

I will be ringing in the New Year in beautiful British Columbia (BC) on Vancouver Island; my lovely bride, Jane, and I are out here visiting with our son, Martin, and his girlfriend, Cara.  It’s the first time out here for Jane and we have even had sunshine and blue skies so she got to see the pure, natural vistas that makes BC so beautiful.  We decided to fly out from Ontario and spend this special moment in time with them.  However, Martin and I need to get our game on with respect to playing cribbage; these gals are killing us at cards!

As I type it is 15:30 here on the west coast of Canada.  Home, in Ontario, it's 18:30.  Back in England, where I moved from in 1988, it is 23:30; all my family and friends will be getting ready to bring in their future year of 2018.  Here I have still got a while to wait; in fact, we’re not even leaving to go to our celebrations for another five hours! 

On Baker Island, in the Pacific Ocean, it is barely lunch-time on New Year’s Eve, yet about 2,000 kms south-east in Apia, the capital of the Samoan Islands in Polynesia, it’s already past lunchtime on Monday 1 January 2018; at 13:30 their hangover should be well and truly a thing of their past.  Yup, they have a past where we’ve had no future as yet!  We’re just sitting here in 2017 on the west coast of Canada waiting to get to started!

The future?  Yes, I sure can see it; right now, it is on the Samoan Islands; and it looks wonderful too!

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Wherever you are in this wonderful world of ours; Happy New Year!!!