Our friends in Tuvalu are getting ready to light the blue touch paper already, while I'm about to get the ice scraper out so I can see out my car's windscreen, on this chilly English morning.
Wherever you are, I wish you a fizzy, fun and fantastic 2015.
Stay healthy, and don't forget to tell those close to you, know how much you love them.
Mark Twain sums up New Year's celebrations for me very aptly:
"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions."
I'll raise a glass to that!
Nicola xx