New Year celebrations

Tanlic

Tanlic

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What are your plans. How will you celebrate the New Year?
It's Hogmanay here already but my ex pat friends are spread out all over the place.bWe are English 3, German 1, South African 1, Belgium 1 Australian 1 , New Zealand 2 and Swede.
The only problem is we all own houses outside the main town from 3 to 20miles away from each other and there are police road blocks in every direction....so parties with friends are a huge no no. 1beer will get you a night in jail and a 500 pound fine. I will spend my new year among Thais most of which don't speak a word of English.. in bed By 1am 😭
Wishing you all a happy new year
 
I've never been one to celebrate the event, Tan, really; there seems to be a sort of enforced jollity around it that I don't get. Very often I've gone to new year celebrations and wished I hadn't bothered.
The best ones tend to catch me by surprise. I remember, a good few years ago, me and my partner shared a flat with a friend and his girlfriend. Each couple went out separately on New Year's eve. Halfwway through the evening, me and my partner looked at each other and said 'shall we leave'. We did and upon arriving home we found our mates had done the same. We opened a bottle, turned the music up and had one of the best New Year's Eves I've ever had.
Tonight?

A quiet night with a couple of bottles and a good film and we'll be done.

Boring old me.
 
New Year is no big deal for us.

Growing up we didn't celebrate it at all much. My parents didn't drink so it was some tea and madeira/cherry cake until the bells then wish each other a happy new year then off to bed.

As a student I went to a few New Year discos mainly just for the prospect of having a few pints and snogging just about any passing female in the street on our way to the taxi rank.

The best was the night the brother and I left the house shortly after the bells to go visit a pal whose family did celebrate quite raucously. After half an hour we and the pal left to go visit another and we ended up with quite a posse going from pal to pal to celebrate some more. We got home about 7am, if memory serves but weren't really too bad for the wear because of all the walking we'd been doing.

Nor were we into first footing. We were red-headed so the best we could muster was two out of three when it came to tall, dark and handsome first-footers. I wasn't allowed to first foot because I didn't qualify on any measure.

Mrs O's side tend not to celebrate much either due to too many deaths in the family at that time of year but we do wait up for the bells to wish each other well and then it's off to bed by about 12.30.

Christmas is a much, much bigger deal involving church services and family get-togethers.
 
I think the last time I was awake at midnight for new year I was in colic surgery and we only realised it was midnight because suddenly we could hear fireworks going off. I gave up going out for it when the pub I would go in weekly ( and more during the cricket season) started charging to get in. Put myself on to work NYE and Day so that the other girls could go out, get hammered and do whatever with no worry about the next day - that suited me as well, I had an excuse not to go out plus it got rid of one of my bank holidays without even really noticing!

Interesting that you say you’ll be surrounded by people who mostly don’t speak any English Tanlic, surely you speak some Thai by now?

Have a good one everyone, however you choose to spend it. And I hope everyone has a very blessed and prosperous next year.
 
Miserable lot of buggers aren’t we :). I’ll be turfed out in the cold with a lump of coal, a slice of bread and a glass of scotch, then come back in when the hour has struck for a long kiss and hug with Pam, followed by toasting the family in absentia and thence straight to the comfort of a warm bed.

Whatever you do, have a good one.
 
Orchidette's fiance, a fine Irish lad, first foots us these days. He qualifies on all fronts.

Orchidette has him well trained. When we open the door he hands over a bottle, a tenner and something nice to eat, with the words, "Health, wealth and happiness."

That's the cue to crack open the cans of draught Guinness.
 
Still recovering from my Christmas lurgy so it will be 8pm bed for me again....😔
 
Desert Orchid said:
Orchidette's fiance, a fine Irish lad, first foots us these days. He qualifies on all fronts.

Orchidette has him well trained. When we open the door he hands over a bottle, a tenner and something nice to eat, with the words, "Health, wealth and happiness."

That's the cue to crack open the cans of draught Guinness.
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Does he like racing?
 
yorick said:
With a little hot toddy to comfort you?
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Rather a Hot Body to comfort me to be honest but that's not happening and out of honey sadly - plenty of whiskey but its the "good" stuff according to the mother so unlikely to be able to access it as its most likely under lock and key. The fact that my brother sends her it on demand regularly (he's a wine merchant) seems to escape that fact but then again she is Scottish so not the most generous......(ducks behind the sofa waiting for the DO comeback)
 
jinnyj said:
Rather a Hot Body to comfort me to be honest but that's not happening and out of honey sadly - plenty of whiskey but its the "good" stuff according to the mother so unlikely to be able to access it as its most likely under lock and key. The fact that my brother sends her it on demand regularly (he's a wine merchant) seems to escape that fact but then again she is Scottish so not the most generous......(ducks behind the sofa waiting for the DO comeback)
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You're disappointingly lightweight, Kirsty.

My parents used to lock away the spirits but by the time I was sixteen I knew how to remove a drinks cabinet door and replace it again with little more than a Phillips head screwdriver. Never even left a finger print.
 
Oh she'd know alright! I had a friend to stay and I offered him a drink - gin, wine, whiskey etc...She quickly replied - "He can't have my Peaty Craig!!" Mortifying! Its not as though I am a teenager!
 
Large gin downed, fish pie in the oven - some twat outside has been letting off fireworks already so my horses are weaving and pratting about their stables - good luck to me mucking out tomorrow morning!
Happy New Years y'all - have a good and more importantly, safe one! xx
 
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