Happy New Year to all my devoted followers.

I think I was awake when it was midnight in Mumbai, and I was certainly woken at midnight by the church bells and fireworks here in Lucca.

I hope the new year brings calmness, perspective and even more to love about your lives.

Farley Cunnington-Smythe

ps

(Because some fool introduced the cactoblastis moth to Australia we are unable to decorate our houses, sporting fields and paddocks with prickly pear. Unbelievable! Not in Lucca though. The Italians have an eye for beauty, that’s for sure!)