So! 2015 is all over bar New Year’s Eve celebratory drinks in bars all over.

No matter how 2015 treated you, bid it a fond farewell and greet 2016 with a smile on your face. It could be the year you’ve been waiting for.

Personally speaking, 2015 created some good memories, some not-so-good and some I never want to think about ever again.

For example, I’ve completely wiped from my memory the night I spent in a rundown cantina in a small Mexican town. The place was so sleazy, to gain entry you had to go down three steps – physically and socially.

It was there I met two beautiful senoritas – Rosita and Juanita.

Rosita dressed in red.

Juanita dressed in under a minute.

We laughed together, we danced together, we ate chilli bean enchiladas together…and we drank 18 bottles of tequila together.

Then, inexplicably, after I was violently sick down my shirt front, I was all alone.

Even though the night’s wiped from my memory, the stains still haven’t come out of my shirt.

Each year contains 525,600 minutes and it can take less than one minute for something life-changing to happen, like a car accident or a grand piano dropping on your head when the rope, hauling it up the outside of a 50-storey apartment building, suddenly snaps.

Newspaper cartoons regularly used to depict that happening, but rarely do today.

Either fewer grand pianos are being sold or they’ve found a way to haul them up on the inside of buildings.

Anyway, my feeling is, if you can get through 525,600 minutes every year, unscathed and accident-free, you’re entitled to give yourself a pat on the back.

But don’t do it too forcefully or you might wrench your shoulder – defeating the object of you patting yourself on the back for not having had any accidents.

For one married couple I know, who’ve been making a living as circus clowns for over 20 years, 2015 has ended badly.

Twice a day (three times on Saturdays) they threw buckets of water over one another, got plastered in red, blue and green gunge and threw custard pies in each other’s faces.

But now, sadly, they’re going through a messy divorce!

I hope that’s helped you to greet 2016 with a smile on your face.

My sincere thanks for reading my ramblings every Wednesday and, as long as you keep enjoying them, I’ll keep writing them.

Happy New Year!