Final post for 2016

Hi Thinking out loud here :D

It's been awhile, so I thought I'd do one last blog post before the year is out, I want to to re-cap on some things and look to next year.

In all honesty I don't really know where to begin, this year has been a trying and testing year, I feel more so than any other. Things have happened that shouldn't have, things happened that couldn't be helped. It came with highs and plenty of lows from the deaths of many celebrities both young and old, and plenty of natural disasters including with some here in New Zealand. It was a year that truly pushed many of us to places we never knew we could go. I think the best way is to start with the not so great events and end with the happier events of the year.

Some of the biggest surprises that sadly happened were the numerous deaths starting with (Star man) David Bowie, Alan Rickman (who will for ever be known as Snape to so many of us,) Sir Terry Wogan (who with out Children in need will not be the same in the UK,) Paul Daniels, Ronnie Corbett (one of the funniest comedians there ever could have been, the two ronnies can now be together again,) Victoria woods (another great comedian,) Prince, (for everyone who is on YouTube a talented singer who) Christina Grimmie, Carrie Fisher and her Mother Debbie Reynolds to name just a small portion of the many talented and loved people we lost in 2016. all of whom will be greatly missed, with the celebrities passing which felt like one a week at some stages in the year there has been plenty of things happening politically with the Bexit, the failed military coup in Turkey, the American election which I honestly think no one was ready for but is going to make 2017 interesting, our prime minister resigned and all the tempted bombs and the bombs that killed thousands of people including the Orlando shooting which started the love is love is love campaign which many musicals and people around the world got involved with showing the LGBT community that they weren't alone.

With the world already wanting 2016 to be over we had the zika virus and mother nature to contend with, we have had shakes some one after another starting here in New Zealand and continuing to Japan, central America and the most recent one in Chile, these of course came with their own problems tsunami warnings, places left stranded and sadly people dieing. All this has only shown that we as a whole are pretty strong to be able to keep going.

Its clear there have been some rough times but with those times we have also had some pretty spectacular times to help us through the year. Leonardo Dicaprio won his first Oscar that for him had been long awaited, the 2016 Rio olympics that showed what hard work and dedication can do, there was the first ever flower grown in space which honestly is amazing, bit random but someone bought a piece of John Lennon's hair, we had more from J K Rowling with the wizarding world giving us Harry Potter and the cursed child, Fantastic Beasts and where to find them revealing there will be another four films to follow and a musical that very quickly became one of my favourites this year Hamilton managed to get 3.3million in a week on Broadway setting a new record.

This year has been one to take with a pinch of salt I hope next year treats us all kinder and gives us a few more things to look forward to, I hope what ever you do this New Years Eve you have fun stay safe and look forward to 2017.

Happy New year

love always Thinking out loud xx :D