HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2026

Dear Friends, Best wishes for a New Year filled with health, happiness and peace!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!

Best wishes for the New Year. May health, happiness and creativity light up every day of your year. Be well, be joyful, be kind. Enjoy the good moments, give back tenfold the love you receive once. Share your joys, they will be multiplied and will lighten up many lives around you. Share your sadness, it will be divided and will dissipate.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

With best wishes for health, peace and happiness in 2024!

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MELBOURNE'S MOOMBA

Moomba (also known as the Moomba Festival) is held annually in Melbourne, Australia. Run by the City of Melbourne, it is Australia's largest free community festival. The Melburnian tradition is celebrated over four days, incorporating the Labour Day long weekend, from Friday to the second Monday in March.

Moomba is culturally important to Melbourne, having been celebrated since 1955, and regularly attracts up to a million people, with a record attendance of 3.8 million (2.3 million tourists) set in 2018. In 2003, the event was renamed Melbourne Moomba Waterfest.

Traditional events include the Moomba parade, crowning of Moomba monarchs, fireworks displays, carnivals in the gardens along the river, river activities including watersports, water floats and the Birdman Rally, as well as live music and bands. In 2021, the usual Moomba was cancelled by Melbourne City Council, for the first time ever, due to events and issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. However "Moomba 2.0" events were held on 5–8 March.

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and also part of the Ruby Tuesday meme.

HAPPY DIWALI!

The cold and rainy weather has not dampened the spirits of the organisers or attendees of the celebrations of Diwali in Melbourne this weekend!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Best wishes for a New Year filled with health and happiness! Let's all hope that this year brings healing and restitution of normality.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!

Fireworks over the Yarra River in Melbourne City.

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and also part of the Ruby Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Travel Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme.