to a ...

...new year and a new decade.

Watching on the telly fireworks on Sydney Harbour Bridge counting in the new year but it is difficult to say 'Happy' as fires rage in three states in this 'sunburnt country'.
The cost to the human population of property and life is awful and the cost to the wildlife population is staggering with estimates of a BILLION animals and plants having died to date in the wildfires.