IT’S about this time every year people start talking about change.
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Change or exchange.
Whether it’s exchanging excess for moderation, inactivity for exercise or simply exchanging festive platitudes with relatives.
Perhaps it is this time of year which helps us identify staleness whether its in the musty Christmas leftovers or in Nanna’s kitchen curtains, hanging on in open resistance to current taste.
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What was refreshing, however, in the midst of the Christmas commotion was Manilla’s dazzling New Year’s Eve fireworks display.
Say what you like about Tamworth’s northern neighbour, but it’s a little town with a lot of heart.
Whether it’s fighting for its historic viaduct bridge or rallying to host one of the biggest free youth concerts on the calendar, Manilla always swings for the fences.
In response to “nothing happening” in Manilla on new year’s, the town was sparked into gear.
A community carnival was organised and hosted by the minor league to rapturous reviews.
Many held out for the fireworks display while enjoying the sideshow activities on offer.
If people felt a bit short-changed ringing-in 2019 in Tamworth compared to Manilla’s activities, you could see where they were coming from.
It’s an age-old debate which also sparks up around this time each year with fireworks eschewed in Tamworth in favour in festival pyrotechnics.
Is it time for change in Tamworth when it comes to New Year’s Eve?
It was a quiet night to see out 2018 in the country music capital which certainly begs the question whether there should be a community-based activity returned or established in the region’s largest city.
It is hard to put a value on something as fleeting, and pricey, like a couple of crackers.
It’s really just something shiny to distract from life’s maladies for one second, but there is surely something intrinsically valuable in having an excuse to come together as a town to simply be together.
