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Morning all.

You’re not alone in that @HigherHeaven. I’m feeling pretty flat. Though I’m having a lovely dinner with DP tonight. Another restaurant cook at home.

Tomorrow is chip sandwiches on plain bread 😂

@Groovee that’s a plan.. you need a bit of first foot luck!

HigherHeaven I am sustaining myself with positive thoughts of a my world 6 months from now. DD1 has a job or the chance of one. DD2 and 3 have passed exams and secured nice flats for the next academic year. DD4 has a uni offer. Teaching is a job some people do and nobody really says much about it. DH isn't exhausted by dealing with a pandemic when his workplace thought noro was the worst thing they'd have to deal with. I am going on holiday after I have talked utter pish in pub on the last day of term with my lovely colleagues. And in my dream I am not as fat as right now

🥂 cheers to that, lovely post @HigherHeaven. Enjoy the pie

My eldest brother was generally sent out just at the bells with a bottle of whisky, a loaf of black bun and a lump of coal and he'd knock the door as soon as it was 12. We used to wind him up that 2 out of 3 wasn't bad in the tall, dark and handsome stakes!! :o

Good luck with the interview too. Raise a glass to all of us contractors, freelancers, self employed, SBOs for this tough year.

and yes, perfect sentiments expressed @higherheaven

I've had a few colleagues start their post redundancy life this festive season and I am very jealous. I can't retire yet and I don't want to continue with my current job/type of work but i don't have skills/experience to earn the same doing something new. So just looking a few years hence when DC finish Uni and hopefully become financially independent and I can choose to sling it. I just crave change really. I know I'm lucky to have a job etc, it just doesn't always feel like it. I've worked over 37 years full time and it's always felt like work. I can say there has been very little enjoyment in any of it :(

Maybe 2021 will be the year that changes but i'm thinking more towards 2023/4.

Just seeing all the new year celebrations across the world. They’re saying it was subdued in Sydney...yikes, they haven’t seen Princes Street tonight yet, I’d happily take any of those celebrations I can see and I’m way past the age of partying in the street demographic. I just want a bit of ‘happy people being normal’ noise, if you know what I mean.

Trying to channel my inner Mary Poppins and find the fun but sluggish - have frozen in the park for 2 hours. Cheers to all of you and let's hope for a steep upward trajectory for everyone in 2021.

I'm not sure I'll even bother with the bells tonight. But I will raise a glass to making it to the end of this year. I have got a new job (and have escaped a vile and toxic culture) to look forward to, although we still have the worry of dh's income as he is self employed and can't work atm.

Thanks for the banter and fortitude everyone, here's hoping 2021 is kind to everyone but especially those who are in most need.

I never make bells, I say goodnight to dh and go to bed before them. I cant be bothered with jools Holland hootenany or Jackie bird and the Edinburgh military tattoo.

I am going to see my mum and dad for the first time in ages tomorrow. I never got to see them at Christmas so really looking forward to it.

Only an excuse is ending this year, not that its good anymore anyway.

Hogmanay TV is always shite. There's Mrs Brown xmas special part 2 but that's also shite now compared to the early series.

We're hitting the beach with a bonfire like half of Edinburgh I reckon. Meeting one other family so hopefully the police won't send us home. But I suspect they'll be out checking up. It's been raining all day so the sand will be damp. But the brandy will be warming and the chat will hopefully be fairly normal.
I hope Dh and I can sort ourselves out in 2021, this year has been tough with us both at home so much and a million and one other stresses. If we can be in a better state this time next year I'll be happy.

For the first time in a while it will be a quiet one as is all of my friends but next new year will be quite the party!

But I will raise a dram to those who haven’t made it and those who are on the frontline, and those scientists who have found the vaccine do not all bad for 2021!

I don't know anyone doing anything more rebellious than perfectly legally watching the fireworks from a good spot. My DDs should be getting ready for clubbing not sporting loungewear .

Will raise a dram to my DFIL. We lost him at the start of the year and we consider ourselves lucky it was in "normal" time. He wouldn't like my choice of no ice just water but we didn't disagree on too much. Mind you , if the pubs shutting hadn't been too much for him the Scotland making the Euros might have🥃

That's very brave @Rae36 , it's freezing outside.
Which beach ?

Yes. To all of your posts. Trying not to get down.

Steak pie for us tomorrow.

Slushy walk no doubt.

Maybe I should play desperado

Or it might depress me

🍷 to all of us for a great better next year and thanks fo4 this thread

Happy New Year when it comes. While I've not always agreed with everyone on these threads, it's always nice to have people to chat to. I'm drinking a cocktail with DH, trying to strike the balance between fun Hogmanay and small children.

Happy New Year, all

Happy new year all. It's not 2020 anymore 🥳🥳🥳 here's hoping 2021 is better eh

You'd never think the phrase 'it's not 2020 any more' would mean so much.

I can literally remember nothing from last new year. I know I was home with DH and had a couple of glasses of wine, but nothing else.

Please let this just be a distant memory next year.

Happy new year, here’s to whatever 2021 has in store 😁

Funnily I can't recall last nye either. We have a tot so must have been home. This year has been so weird it's like it's simultaneously stretched on forever and yet condenses to nothing

Glad to see the back of that year and no mistake.

I know it's stupid but I was almost holding my breath the last half hour or so hoping nothing else would go wrong for us or for anyone we know. What a total shitter of a year.

Happy new year - bring it on 2021