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New Year's Eve

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Cupofteaplease · 14/12/2008 18:27

So, when Christmas day is actually out of the way, and the children are bored with their presents already ... what will you be doing on New Year's Eve?

Sorry to be thinking past Christmas aready!!

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BucksFizz · 14/12/2008 18:32

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janeite · 14/12/2008 18:32

I hate NYE too. I go to bed with a book and a Baileys coffee.

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Cupofteaplease · 14/12/2008 18:36

I know what you mean BucksFizz about the expectation to have fun! I always go to my parents' house on NYE and we just stay up til midnight, have a drink, eat cheese and biscuits and then dance to Auld Lang Syne before going to bed!

Sadly, my Dad died this year, and I can't bear the thought of carrying on this humble tradition without him So, I tried to organise a family party instead, but my sisters weren't interested- bah humbug!

So it looks like we'll be off to Mum's as usual and I'll try not to think too much of Dad. Really NOT looking forward to it this year.

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BucksFizz · 14/12/2008 18:40

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detoxdiva · 14/12/2008 18:41

All our babysitters are away, so dh and I are having a meal, a bottle of champagne and an early night

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Cupofteaplease · 14/12/2008 18:43

Yes, I shall try and do that. I'm hoping somebody on here will post something amazing that they are doing for NYE and it may inspire me to break the mould this year!

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Joolyjoolyjoo · 14/12/2008 18:46

I really do miss the old "Hogmanay"- everyone in our street used to party until 4/5am, wandering from house to house and taking the party with them as they went- they nearly always ended up at my parents' house, and we kids used to hide behind the settee and snigger at their singing and their antics. Everyone had a song, and one of our neighbours plays the guitar really well, so a sing-song was guaranteed- as was lots of other raucous behaviour. It was fantastic.

Doesn't happen any more, sadly, but we will be having our friends (and their kids) over for a few days, and any neighbours know they are free to drop in, so we'll see how it goes. It is also dd1's 5th birthday, so we will have friends over with their kids during the day, and the party will continue once the kids are a-bed. Hope it goes better than the last time we attempted this and the 'leccy went down at 10.30- and stayed off for 3 days!! Our poor frozen guests went home the next day, after we saw the New Year in by candlelight, and we had to order a Chinese take-away for our Ne'er's Day dinner!

BeckyBendyLegs · 14/12/2008 18:51

I'm in the 'I hate NYE' clan as well. I've very rarely had a good New Years Eve. We always try to meet up, my old-Uni friends and me and DH, and we either fall out with each other (there's been some hungdingers), or the one single friend sits there feeling all lonely and stuff and the rest of us feel terrible and bad about kissing our spouses at the crucial mmoment, or I'm coming down with flu or something and then at midnight I just want to go to bed! Misery guts I am!

BucksFizz · 14/12/2008 18:52

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Joolyjoolyjoo · 14/12/2008 18:55

It was! I seem to have had many memorable NYE's - some good, some bad!! I like Hogmanay- I feel it's a time to put any bad stuff from the previous year behind you and start afresh, or just look forward to the prospect of another year ahead, with no mistakes in it yet! It's definitely a bigger deal up here in Scotland, although far less now, it seems

PaddingtonBore · 14/12/2008 18:57

My DH is working on NYE, so I will be having a takeaway delivery after DD has gone to bed. I shall savour it with a bottle of wine, and a period drama on DVD.

I can't wait, actually

Nemostwonderfultimeoftheyear · 14/12/2008 19:01

every year we try to plan something but always fail due to illness and the like. Have asked friends if want to do something together with all the Dc so go to one of the houses..will see what happens.

choudeBruxelles · 14/12/2008 19:02

DH is also working NYE and will prob end up doing overtime after some pissed up idiots try to kill one another.

Know what you mean about the expectation to have a good time. DH working is actually a relief as no-one expects us to be doing anything.

festivedollyx · 14/12/2008 19:11

I live in a rural community and every nye there is a ceilidh in the memorial hall which is just a brill laugh! you bring your own food and booze they have a ceilidh band and a piper for the bells and the hall is decked out with tables with candles, balloons and streamers made from the leftover reams that the milk bottle tops are made from!! it magic and so down to earth nothing fancy, all the kids come and stay all night and they do old fashioned games that the adults and kids play together like who can throw the 20p closest to the whisky bottle wins a prize etc. my children love it because all our family and friends go and they get to dance and play all night ( well to 1.30 am)! then we go home and let fireworks off (as many our neighbours do!) after that we usually unwind with some munchies as the kids settle down to sleep!! brill

festivedollyx · 14/12/2008 19:16

Jooly we used to have nye like that also (scottish too) and to be honest it is still like that here, i live in a quiet little street where most neighbours are friends and we pop from house to house still!!!1

Joolyjoolyjoo · 14/12/2008 19:20

festivedollyx- glad the tradition is still alive and kicking! I am single-handedly trying to revive it in our street

elkiedee · 14/12/2008 19:20

festivedolly that sounds lovely. I suspect that like last year this year we'll be in on our own. Friends regularly used to host NYE at their house but last year a family who are friends with lots of our friends but not directly with us had the NY party and ds was only 7 months. And next year we'll have two of them. Sigh.

SantaKLAWs · 14/12/2008 19:21

My local pub has Bad Manners playing on Hogmanay, I hope to go to that this year and have a bit of nostalgia for my yoof. Not that I was that into them then but I do remember their 'hits' and think they should be good fun. Fortunately the pub owners are friends and have offered to have dd upstairs with their dd.

sorted!

SantaKLAWs · 14/12/2008 19:23

Festivedolly that sounds great, I'd like to do that in my local village..... will need to canvas opinion for next year

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Cupofteaplease · 14/12/2008 19:46

Am glad to see there are people who do something 'special' for NYE. Joolyjoolyjoo, festivedollyx, SantaKLAWs- your plans all sound great!

I just can't think of what we could do, that we could involve mum in, and the 2 dds under 3, that wouldn't be just sitting at mum's. Sitting at ours instead maybe??!!

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festivedollyx · 14/12/2008 19:51

Oh tis fab!! cant wait

U need to find a cheap local hall and someone willing to organise i bet it would be fab!!

Alambil · 14/12/2008 19:53

I'm going to be earning money by babysitting; I'll SO need it!!

LilySwalLoosHerTurkeyBaster · 14/12/2008 19:58

we are going to butlins our xmas pressie from mil!

starbear · 14/12/2008 20:02

festivedollyx That sounds brill. I normal work on NYE which is strangely okay. I meet up at the station with my mates/colleagues that I have know for a long time. We get transport up town where we are fed, we don't call it anything else. Bump into few old friends even some old boyfriends ha ha. Then transported to venue normally the Embankment. Get top coats on gloves etc to the point that you can't bend to do up your shoes laces. case the joint for tea and loos. Then wait for the public to arrive not quiet understanding why their there. Disapproving of any one who brings small children. Pull out a few drunks. Get so cold that when you get a cup of tea it tastes like champagne. See the fireworks. Get kissed by good looking blokes,less and less as the year go by. Look angry at the ugly ones. Herd the public to stations that are closed and give wrong directions that the management gave you. Stamp your feet alot to get warm. Get back on transport to station. Go home to be looked after because you've worked all night! Do you think I've given the game away lads! This year I don't think I'll be working I'm a bit lost.

BucksFizz · 14/12/2008 20:22

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