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Millennium Eve

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Username098123764591 · 21/04/2023 09:37

Somebody on another thread mentioned millennium Eve and it got me wondering what everybody was doing on Millennium Eve? And also what fun outfits were you wearing you would cringe at now?

I was only 13, my family doesn't celebrate new years eve as we had a very sad loss and it brings back memories so we were home doing not much really I was messing around on the internet I really wanted to turn the computer off but Kyle from the year above was talking at me on MSN!

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Whyishewearingasombero · 21/04/2023 20:33

I was in the SCBU, with 29 week DS, weighing under 3lb at birth. He's now 23, nearly 6ft, with size 11 shoes. Just started his first graduate job.

ArmatureDramatics · 21/04/2023 20:35

I watched some fireworks with my now ex husband, and we talked about how batshit all the "millennium bug" theories were. We were right.

HaggisFace · 21/04/2023 20:36

I would first foot my granny every year so I would have been there. Very fond memories of Hogmany at her house

SoMuchToBits · 21/04/2023 20:37

I was 38 and working that night (as a nurse in the recovery room). They had put extra staff on that night, thinking it might be busy, but was actually very quiet! We went up to the 8th floor of the maternity block (where theatres/recovery were) to watch all the fireworks at midnight.

I was wearing scrubs, clogs and one of those hats which covers all your hair and looks like it's made out of a J cloth.

BarrelOfOtters · 21/04/2023 20:42

In London, right by the London Eye, watching the fireworks. It was amazing. The buses back to where we were staying on a friend’s floor were packed so we walked for miles till we found somewhere open to eat….

catscatscurrantscurrants · 21/04/2023 21:03

I was at a party with friends. My then husband was working on the other side of the world and rang me at midnight on the host's phone to wish me happy new year. There were fireworks everywhere, it was a very happy night.

newjobnewstartihope · 21/04/2023 21:38

@justcantgetenough urghhh I had that flu earlier that year and honestly thought I was dying- covid felt like a walk in the park in comparison

LIZS · 21/04/2023 21:42

We took toddler ds to the Mall during the day, left as the evening crowds started to arrive and got caught in chaos. The buggy wheels were off the ground as we tried to pass through to get to station. Watched fireworks at home on tv.

NotanotherboxofFrogs · 21/04/2023 22:24

I was hiding under my bed during a psychotic break and was refusing all help as "aliens were trying to get me" , it was another couple of days before my mother got the GP to visit and I was sectioned and remained in hospital for most of the year.

Runnerduck34 · 21/04/2023 22:32

NotanotherboxofFrogs · 21/04/2023 22:24

I was hiding under my bed during a psychotic break and was refusing all help as "aliens were trying to get me" , it was another couple of days before my mother got the GP to visit and I was sectioned and remained in hospital for most of the year.

Goodness that sounds tough, I hope you made a good recovery and are ok now.

On millenium eve eldest DD was a few months old and we went to a friends party who had also had a baby recently, there were lots of babies upstairs in travel cots whilst new parents desperately tried to have an evening, DD ended up downstairs with us but we had a really good night.

BridieConvert · 21/04/2023 22:37

I was 7. My parents threw a new year party, I went to bed at 8 then got up again for the bells 😂

WaitingForSunnyDays · 21/04/2023 22:39

I was also working in IT so in the office waiting to see if the millennium bug hit. Of course, by the time it was midnight in the UK it had already gone past midnight in half the world and nothing had gone drastically wrong so we were sent home shortly after (with the sleeping bags we'd been expecting to spend the night in).

CardinalCopia · 21/04/2023 23:40

There was a street party, but DH and I had been properly ill with Flu since just after Boxing Day. By NYE he was coming out of the other side of it but I couldn’t even move from the sofa to go upstairs to bed I was so ill.
He took our then small DCs across to the party for half an hour, I don’t remember him coming back and woke up on the sofa late New Years Day disappointed to learn Y2K hadnt brought down the government 😂

Happily I’ve never had flu since, but I understood when people say “if you couldn’t bend down to pick up a tenner it’s flu” now. I couldn’t a
have moved for a lottery win that week.

Mademetoxic · 21/04/2023 23:59

8 year old me has no memory of it whatsoever.

NotanotherboxofFrogs · 22/04/2023 02:09

@Runnerduck34 Thank you. Recovery is going well. Things settled down around 2005 when I got settled on a good medication regime which made a positive impact on my life.

Ponderingwindow · 22/04/2023 02:19

Sipping champagne in a hot tub at our ski resort cabin.

ChristmasJumpers · 22/04/2023 03:58

I was 10 and we did fireworks from the back garden. We had family staying with us and me and my cousin danced and sang to Venga Boys 😂

I also low key panicked that the world would end or a bomb would go off at midnight 😳

PissedOffNeighbour22 · 22/04/2023 04:21

I was 15 and my gran had died a couple of days before so the mood wasn't great. We'd also just moved house so still settling in. Don't recall anything exciting happening that night.

Surely2023IsTheYearForMyRainbowBaby · 22/04/2023 04:34

BusySittingDown · 21/04/2023 09:47

I had just turned 16 and went to a friend's family party. I was wearing a black mesh top from Pilot (anyone remember Pilot?) and black bootcut trousers. Lots of hair glitter!

Yeah I remember Pilot. I got a top from there years ago, a black satin type material with a thick band of silver sequins going straight up the middle into a halter neck. It looked beautiful against my lobster red sunburned patchy skin on holiday 😂

bert3400 · 22/04/2023 04:49

Also in London near the The London eye, with my now DH . It was a brilliant night involving peeing in a random doorway as no public toilets. We were staying in my Best friends flat in Westbourne Gdns and walked all the way back as the sun was rising. Great night . I remember waking up the next day and being so relieved that everything was still ok with the world.

Simplepink · 22/04/2023 05:14

In Brighton at the big public party thing then onto the party of a pretty famous band who my family member was friends with. I was just 17 and it was the first “all nighter” id ever really done and everything felt quite magical as the sun came up

TenInSport · 22/04/2023 08:00

It was a night I still have very fond memories of...

(Names and minor details have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent!)

We were 16 and 17 and that morning James dumped Katie. James was Katie's first serious boyfriend and she did not take it well, immediately cancelling the party she was supposed to be having at her place that night. She was my best friend but she made it clear to me that even I was not welcome at her's for reasons that were not clear at this point.

So being young, dumb and impulsive, at 6pm a group of us jumped on a train to London and upon arriving just sort of entered the chaos with no real idea what we were doing.

We wanted to grab food but the queue at McDonalds in Leicester Square was out of the building and round the square. Chris had the bright idea that we get back on the tube and ride it out to the far end of a line where we would be away from all the crowds heading into Town and food places would be quieter. We jumped on the next train tube that showed up and sometime later ended up in the arse-end of God-Knows-Where, but there were no open food places, so we made our way back in stop-by-stop until we found a tiny fish and chip shop that literally just served cod and chips. There were no other options on the menu and the food was awful.

Suitably fuelled but still with no plan, we headed back into town and just sort of mooched. At midnight we ended up in sight of the London Eye, somewhat crushed by crowds, rather cold and very sober. It was amazing and as the countdown got to zero James kissed me. It turned out he had dumped Katie because he wanted to ask me out and had told her that this was the reason.

We then struggled to get home and ended up at a station about 25 miles from home at around 5.15am. All our phone batteries were dead and we pooled our last bits of change so that Charlie could ring her long-suffering mum who had a people carrier and willingly drove out to collect us.

Once we were back at Charlie's big house we all piled into the den were there were beanbags, blankets and sofa cushions we could throw on the floor and gradually everyone fell asleep. Once James and I were confident we were the only people still awake we started kissing and at about 9am, with my consent, he quietly took my virginity.

So, yeah, it was a good night!

(Epilogue: James and I dated for 17 months; Katie got over it and started dating Chris; Katie and I remain the best of friends; Chris is now married to Charlie; James ended up with a lovely husband(!) and I am very much looking forward to everyone being back together at my 40th birthday party later this year!)

Serp · 22/04/2023 08:05

I was 8, my grandmother looked after me and my siblings whilst my parents went out. I remember we watched Face Off. Lovely memories!

Lunaloonytunes · 22/04/2023 08:06

Dressed as a pirate in Leeds, we turned all the car radios on at midnight to listen to Big Ben

13Bastards · 22/04/2023 09:45

Love that story @TenInSport

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