New years

Gers

Gers wrote: »

Jools Hollands show is recorded months earlier and it shows. Great music, rubbish forced jollity.

maman wrote: »

Am I the only person that doesn't like that show?:o


I'm told that in Scotland they still have a more traditional Hogmanay programme. Anyone know?


With my ex I used to go to balls with Scottish Dancing but my now DH isn't a dancer so we stay at home. Well have a nice meal (usually duck with dauphinoise potatoes) and plenty of fizz. No need for a teaspoon here!:D

No more traditional Hogmanay show on STV - think the appetite for 'shortbread tin' shows has gone. Now we have Lorraine Kelly with Judy Murray! Not much tradition there.

prosaver

i heared in the old days people use to knock on random houses with coal and do the first foot thing for good luck and get a free drink,
imagine doing it now...ha ha

Gers

prosaver wrote: »

i heared in the old days people use to knock on random houses with coal and do the first foot thing for good luck and get a free drink,
imagine doing it now...ha ha

Don't need to imagine it... it still happens!

Coal to wish the household warmth all year
Black bun to wish the household food all year
Dram to wish the house a happy new year

People take drink with them!

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-History-of-Hogmanay/

DigForVictory

My lot still first foot, but it is pretty much by arrangement.

My childhood New Years were spent making champagne cocktails under the aegis of the host, who persuaded me that sugar cubes were not exclusively for ponies. That done, I'd curl up with a glass of lemonade & then fall asleep (usually under a table to avoid being underfoot). It became such a tradition that the lady of the house left a blanket there for me.

Now I'm an all grown up responsible parent (feel free to laugh!) we mostly phone around before 9 & agree Not to wake each other up at midnight. [Getting calls with newborns & toddlers wasn't half hard work.] If the eldest wants to go out on the razzle, one of us will likely sit up for him, or persuade him to take a sleeping bag & the doings to first foot properly...

Caterina

I am in Italy (Sardinia) with DH, spending Christmas with my mum. I have booked the ship back to mainland Italy for the night of 31st December, so we won't get caught in party invites here in Sardinia, nor in Rome where I will be visiting my aunts and cousins on 1st and 2nd January. We will be crossing the Mediterranean Sea through the night and at midnight we will probably be fast asleep in our cabin.

GreyQueen

If in the city, I tell little porkie pies when offered party invites. I have CFS/ME and staying up much past 10 pm is brutally hard for me.

I tell person A that I have accepted person B's invitation, and vice versa (naming no names). Then, I stay at home in my jammies on the sofa, reading and perhaps eating chocolate, and am tucked up in bed by 11 pm.

Having confessed this aberrant behaviour to a pal or two, I have discovered New Year's Party Evasion to be a popular sport. This New Year's I will be with the family and we won't stay up to see the new year in, either.