How do you plan to celebrate this NYE?

[lala2221]

I’m guessing most people will be in ... anyone planning anything special / different to help celebrate it at home?

Bed early. Up for work at 5:30am New Year’s Day.

@nancy75

DH runs a pub, so for the last 15 years I’ve stayed at home with Dd on NYE. This year is the first time DH won’t be working but as we’re tier 4 everything is closed so I still won’t be going out!

That is so bittersweet but at least you and DH will spend NYE together

@Ginogineli

Well I’ll happily be honest and say I’ll be having friends and their kids over - 4 families tier 3.

Most people I know doing similar

Presumably the children are all pre-school with SAHPs? Otherwise that would be the height of wilfully ignorant stupidity.

My friend is in HDU at the moment. His wife is a teacher who caught Covid from one of the children at school, and he caught it from her. But presumably he matters less than your new year celebration.

@Ginogineli you personally may be terribly smug about how it's fine because you don't see anyone over 50 indoors but I bet there are teachers in your kids' schools who are vulnerable and/or over 50. My MIL is a primary teacher and is over 50 with an underlying condition.

I hope the parents at her school have more sense and respect for others than you. Perhaps you should teach your children to have some too.

We've never liked going out on NYE anyway because initially it meant leaving the children with someone when they were little (and we didn't like to use babysitters so it would have had to be friend or family so not very nice to ask them), now they are old enough to go out on NYE and they usually don't want to, but would still need a babysitter. So we usually stay in, have a nice family time then watch Jools Holland and some TV fireworks and have a bottle of bubbly, and make some phone calls - so, the same!

Lobster, scallops, prawns and fancy bread. Cocktails. Film. DH will bring in the new year and a kiss. Probably Jools Holland. Bed. We're going to a drive in movie New Year's Day and I'll cook duck for a new year dinner.

Ginogineli - it's people like you that mean I haven't seen my granny with dementia for a year. She can't work technology and will now have forgotten who I am. Thinking of a two word phrase - the second word is you...

I have never liked NYE if I’m honest, but what’s really upsetting is that sadly it seems that there remains some very selfish and ignorant people on this thread that believe Coronavirus is just someone else’s problem and will ensure that we are all stuck in this nightmare for even longer

Alone - following the rules. I’m due back to school (teacher) in Jan so I’m trying to keep myself safe, plus my parents. I have been invited to events in other tiers, but I don’t want to risk catching it and then passing it on.

Nibbles or maybe Chinese, possibly hot tub, bubbly, Jools Holland, cuddles with cats and dog, hopefully still awake to watch the Big Ben chimes.

Will miss the London fireworks

@Ginogineli I hope you are a troll - if not, you are selfish beyond words and the reason why so many continue to suffer. The NHS should refuse to treat you if you end up with Covid.

Last year we took the DC to a local aquarium and trampolining then we watched Studio Ghibli films and had a take away.

This year I’ve booked a walk at a local stately home during the day and we’re going to watch films and have a take away so not hugely different. We let the DC stay up till midnight too although DS only managed to make it till 10:30 last year. I’ll make a cake and stick some sparklers in the top too.

Party food, bubbles and TV or film. We haven't bothered going out on NYE for 5 or 6 years now. We normally watch the fireworks at midnight so it'll be a bit weird not having that, but all in all a pretty standard NYE for us.

Nice dinner, probably M&S, Bucks Fizz, possibly staying awake to watch the fireworks if I haven’t fallen asleep on the sofa by then.

TTC

We'll do the same as every year: a load of party nibbly food from Iceland, a cake, some fancy non-alcoholic drinks, some music and, this year, possibly a board game. At about 8 we play the countdown and the bells for the dc before winding them down for bed. After that, dh will just fall asleep on the settee.

Getting shitfaced on red wine

Half people on here mixing in bubbles all week - bubble or not you are putting people at risk more than me. Bubbles do not equal immunity. It’s bubbles that should be banned as they encourage cross generation mixing

So many incorrect sweeping generalisations. Firstly I suspect most people who are in a support bubble with someone elderly or vulnerable are being very careful because they are aware of the risk. Secondly, there are plenty of support bubbles which don't involve cross generational mixing (mine is with my DP) . Thirdly support bubbles are an absolute lifeline for many who felt incredibly lonely and isolated during the first lockdown and it's really shitty to suggest they should be banned.

I'm working in a supported living setting - I'll be on my own and have promised to supply large quantities of cola and crisps (the residents who drink alchol are all with their families over the holidays, but there will be seven residents high on caffine and sugar here)... 😮😳 🥳

My support bubble as I live alone is a friend and her husband who are the same age as I am. None of us break the rules or mix in any way that would put one another at risk. I spent Christmas and Boxing day with them. Yes I agree that it's shitty to suggest banning that, especially shitty when it came from someone who's so cavalier with regard to risk taking.

Just family at home, but we'll open champagne, cook a special dinner and eat it by candlelight, then light the firepit, let off some fireworks and sparklers around midnight and next day go for a long hill walk.

Some lovely ideas and some not so comforting ones 🙄.

I hope those who break the mixing rules won't be Moaning if schools close? Teachers are petrified at being put back into classrooms with no protections against an airborne disease.

Anyway... I'd like a Lebanese takeaway, I think the candle light idea a fun and I hadn't thought of sparklers.

Probably won’t do anything!

@Ginogineli so aren’t you part of a bubble?

My two best mates work in icu and are openly sat around doing Netflix enjoying the nhs discounts - their words not mine

Of course they are

Going to get dressed up, have a hogmanay menu all planned. Scotch Broth, chicken Balmoral and Crannachen then drink loads. I want to see the back of 2020 so making as much of a fuss as normal, just without visitors.

*cranachan