2016 has been a truly awful year in the wider world, but in our little Cornish bubble down here at the bottom end of the country, we seem to have sailed serenely through it with little or nothing to get over excited about.
Pretty much the same as every other year, actually.
Of course, national and global events will affect us somehow. Brexit will impact terribly on Cornish farmers who will lose EU subsidies and the chances of the British government making good on the UKIP promises to give them a net increase over what they lose from Europe....... well, nobody is holding their breath on that one.
Globally, 2016 can't end fast enough but parochially, life goes serenely on.