We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
May everything you’re looking forward to, come true –
wherever you are in the world.

With this picture of the creation of new life in the forest, I wish everyone a happy New Year!

It is only with the introduction of the “new calendar” that the “English” New Year started in January; before that, it was in April, when spring brings new life to Nature. Indeed, it was when old-fashioned people insisted on celebrating the New Year in April that others started teasing them, giving rise to the practice of April Fools’ Day!