New Year's Eve

At The Courtyard Hotel at Stanwick was a fun, if cold, evening in a marquee...good company around the table, but WHY do organisers think that a disco playing a decibel level similar to a jumbo jet adds to the atmosphere???? I would so much like to have talked to some of the other people there without having to shout in their ear! Still, the fireworks at midnight were good...but an interesting thing was also going on in the sky that night. I noticed a steady stream of dullish orange lights crossing above the horizon in a dead straight trajectory, separated by a few minutes...miles away by the look of it, but there they were one after one, passing over. The interesting thing was that when we got home, my mother in law had been looking from her bedroom window and said that she had seen as many as 50 of these lights passing and gathering together in a hauge formation.... so what was all that about then???
Today I am sitting in the gallery in the hope that a few people have got some money left to spend on lovely photographs and artwork for their walls!