Happy New Year and wishing the best in 2019 for everyone.
These are proper fireworks, taken on long exposure because all the neighbours, it felt like, lit fireworks at midnight. This lot I took leaning out of the bathroom window on the basis that I was going to improve my firework photography if nothing else. Heavily cropped as it was from a house in the next street.
Sorry to read your blurb you've had a tough year. The last 18 months haven't been the easiest here either, treatment for cancer and treatment for side effects from treatment.... Here's hoping 2019 can be more positive. I'd say just take it easy, remember why you liked photography in the first place and enjoy it. I say this to myself too :)