Anyone still up and enjoying 2025 ✨️

[Thewhisperingwindsofwinter]

Still up enjoying new year. Have watched BBC Scotland skippinish were amazing. Surprised to hear Marti pellows accent he's obviously ditched the American/UK accent for NY.

Sophie ellis bextor was fabulous on her show. You could tell she was out of shape but did herself proud (hope she's OK and isn't a smoker with copd)

London fireworks were fantastic. Hope prevails. In these times that are none stop.

The live New York on YouTube is absolutely shocking really bad. Poor Sophie couldn't see or hear her.

Have facetime family/friends and sent auld lang sing to friends in other countries.

Hope you are all having a ball 🥂💖✨️

What have you been up to?

By your reply you are confirming the impression that you and others who actually see the " new year" as something to celebrate live a cushioned life style unaffected by the reality of life.
You don't have to be mentally ill - as you are implying I am - to see the reality of the state of the world.
Going out and " celebrating " and drinking to excess just because it New Year's Eve is the equivalent of fiddling while Rome burned.

I can't see that anyone has mentioned drinking, let alone drinking to excess, on this thread.

Dry house here, but we still enjoyed our evening.

I hope 2025 brings you better things.

Slept with this thread open. Bed at 4am, up at 8am but not feeling tired.

Woke up to a bit of snow but it didn't settle and has since stopped.

Happy 2025!! 😊 🥂🥳.

Well, I enjoyed my coffee this morning, cuddling my young dcs, and hearing them laugh. The small things make the year for me. I think focusing on grand gestures, and large events imo is a recipe for depression, because inbetween people feel they have nothing to look forward to. I am embracing the small everyday moments that I usually take for granted this year.

I'm quite impressed with the stamina of some of you. I got a few hours sleep. Then went off to do grocery chores.

Party on though however! I remember about 20 years ago NYE we stayed up all night then I went to the shop for a bottle of wine. Bloke said to me "no no we have to think of the padre" and my response was "the what?". Just turned out they couldn't serve before 10am. Suddenly felt very Catholic.

@Nothingisrealisit

If people wish to celebrate, than that is their choice. They can be celebrating for all sorts of reasons, being alive for a new year, having their health, their family around them, appreciation of what they have. My friend almost lost her life in 2024, so yes, she did celebrate and shout to the heavens happy new year!! People cam celebrate what they want to, enjoy their lives in the way they choose. Sitting there miserable thinking about world politics that they have absolutely no control over? What would this achieve, other than even more misery in this world?
It is a sad time for a lot of people who have lost loved ones, me included. However, is it not okay to be grateful, find joy in being alive with the people you hold dear?
You do you, those in glass houses...

?? Where did I say it wasn't OK to celebrate? I just mentioned that excess drinking hadn't been a focus of the thread, as the unhappy pp seemed to be suggesting.

My message was to the other poster. Sorry for the confusion. I was agreeing with you in that people can celebrate in which ever way they choose, and do not need to justify it.

Sorry for misunderstanding, I thought it was aimed at me!

I'm sorry but the clock ticked and the date changed to Ist January. Why should this be a cause for great celebration?
As for the " unhappy " poster , presumably me: I haven't got over reading the story of the woman turning up with an 8 month old baby in a pushchair at the Homeless project in Glasgow on Christmas day. She had no where else to go. Compared to that poor woman.and child I have everything in the world. And I don't see anything to celebrate in a world where a lot of people have nothing, even in so called rich societies like the UK.

I went to bed at the back of 5 had a few hours sleep. Lazy day reading my new book I got for Christmas and maybe a movie. Definitely a nap at some point. We had a heavy snow blizzard this morning it's cleared up now. As is the law in Scotland its steak pie that I made yesterday for dinner tonight.

No one here drank to excess; we have two young children. DH had about two glasses while I had a bottle of wine over the course of an entire evening. We have plenty of reasons to celebrate, too - we have good health and each other. I saw my DH nearly die in a freak accident a few years back and he's had to walk with a cane since at only 40. We celebrate the fact he's still here with us, safe and watching our children grow. We celebrate the kids we have after a series of miscarriages. The life we've build together against all the odds. The memories of the people we've lost.

It's sad that there are awful things happening in the world; sometimes I cry when I think of the atrocities. But I'm alive, my family is alive. Would you prefer we all just sit around and glumly shake hands, never cracking a smile or a joke, because others are suffering? We only get one chance at life. You're more than welcome to spend yours consumed by the misery of the world, but many of us are able to balance the realities of it all with the good things, too.

Anyway - we all just woke and had crumpets for breakfast. Still in bed with the DC's while DH makes coffee. @Thewhisperingwindsofwinter What book are you reading? Definitely going to spend a few hours on mine today - DH got me Insomnia by Stephen King and I'm a new fan. 😁 I hope your pie is delicious!

That means you also don't celebrate any other occasions as well than? You're not superior because you don't celebrate because of horrendous issues you cannot change. People who do celebrate care just as much. It is okay to celebrate the little good that there is in the world. It is okay to celebrate your loved ones, and toast to the memory of those you have lost. It is okay to celebrate with the ones you still have, that one day you could very well be toasting to, or vice versa. It is especially okay to appreciate what you have in the way you choose. NY is a sad time for a lot of people, and if they can find happiness in any of it, than hats off to them, especially those who have lost.

If you u have everything, maybe you could take in somebody in need, and do some good, maybe this might help you feel a bit better. Link below:

https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/get-involved/other-ways-to-help/rent-a-home-to-refugees/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI15D6ybnUigMV-IlQBh3NNAuIEAAYASAAEgIbpvD_BwE

GiddyRobin thank you for writing that better than I could. I've never read any Stephen King books before it's on my to do list. Is the book good? I got the story Spinner by Barbara Erskine when you read her books you actually feel like you are there.

Nothingisrealisit maybe you should stay away from the news and turn off notifications. Honestly it will help you feel much better.

@Thewhisperingwindsofwinter We all deserve a good bit of cheer where we can, and shouldn't feel bad about it. ❤️ Oh I've heard of that! Love a historical novel, and that style of writing is so easily addictive. I hope you're enjoying it! CJ Cooke is brilliant for that "I'm there" feeling. Would highly recommended Pine and the Lighthouse Witches! Oh Stephen King is great!! I'd never read him before either (no idea why as I'm quite a horror fan), but he's so easy to read and the characters pop. His dialogue is excellent and this particular story drags you right in from the get-go so it's really easy to spend a few hours glued to it!

My point is why celebrate just because of a change in date? That's not going to alter anything. Why should the New Year be any better than the one just finished?

And I don't need you to patronise me about giving to charity: I already support various charities throughout the year and give Christmas donations to others.

Christmas/ New year is just so false and meaningless, and relentlessly materialistic . If people behaved decently to each other all year then the world would be a better place.

Humans as a whole have always celebrated something; changing seasons, etc., over the years all across the world. It's what we do - it's what we look for. And it's as materialistic as you make it. Certainly isn't for us or many of the people we know. I grew up with about 5 Poundshop gifts when I was a kid as that's all we could afford. I didn't care. We can afford things now but my own kids aren't being brought up to demand piles of expensive gifts either.

But tbh, I think you know all this and just fancy unloading. If you're genuinely doing okay, then I think you're just being a spoilsport and decided to come and ruin the fun for everyone else. It isn't working though, we aren't silly and you're not enlightened while we're rose-tinted. We're just not cynics. Have a gorgeous January 1st. I hope you make time for a breath of fresh air and a nice meal. Maybe raise a glass to your own loved ones, past or present. 🥂

It was a useful link, because you seemed very low, and like you felt you weren't doing enough. I hope you find some happiness in 2025. You know smiling/celebrating about something doesn't mean you don't care about the world? Celebrating also doesn't mean you don't do anything throughout the year to make it a better place. It really isn't so black and white, I hope you manage to find the grey.

@GiddyRobin thanks for the recommendations much appreciated. Glad you are enjoying your Stephen King book it sounds good. I am really enjoying my book I've learnt a lot about Welsh history from Barbara saying that I've not fact checked any of her books 🤣 pretty sure she's like the equivalent of Hilary mantel and Cromwell though.

Sometimes I reckon fictionalised history can make it sink in a bit more tbh! Like they might dramatise the characters but so many events and the historical side tends to be quite accurate. Welsh history is so interesting, their customs with the Mari Lwyd and things!! You've just reminded me to put Hilary Mantel on my reading list for this year too!

I think your right with that point. I could never get the war of the roses to click until I watched the white princess, white Queen etc then the penny dropped.

Yes! Oh those were so good, I think a rewatch is due. My DH is a historian so he explains things really well, but I'm fiction-minded and it just works so much better for me like this. The Forsyte Saga got me really fascinated by Victorian things! (Plus..Damien Lewis 😂)

DH has just made me a coffee and it tastes suspiciously of Bailey's. Think this means we'll be walking to Mil's then. 🤣

They were really good. I preferred the Tudors to wolf hall. You have just minded me that I started watching the forsyte saga will need to go back to it. Victoria is really good also. It must be good to have a dh historian with lots of facts. Oh bailys in coffee is good. Enjoy your mils

Sophie ellis bextor was fabulous on her show. You could tell she was out of shape but did herself proud (hope she's OK and isn't a smoker with copd)

What the absolute Christ are you on about here!

At that point I was a bottle of Prosecco in. I enjoyed her show but you could see/hear she was breathless at some points.