Reply With QuoteHey guys, happy new year year (sorry Paul) all the very best for the next year.
Last year on Sydney harbour (did you see the fireworks?), this year me and the Mrs at home with a toast to you all.
Was thinking younger children might not stay up 'till midnight or people have other comitments but surely can wait another 15 min.Originally Posted by jukeboxs
Last edited by Kingstepper; 1st January 2024 at 01:33.
Hey guys, happy new year year (sorry Paul) all the very best for the next year.
Last year on Sydney harbour (did you see the fireworks?), this year me and the Mrs at home with a toast to you all.
I’m with you Paul, total non event as far as I’m concerned. Thank god it’s over for another year.
Ps, happy new year everyone, hope you and your family’s have a healthy and peaceful one.
Last edited by klunk; 1st January 2024 at 04:57.
Glad everybody had a happy new year whether they be sat moaning about others enjoying themselves or shagging their hearts out or even enjoying it with friends and family . HappY New Year x x x x
Happy New Year!
For the first time in about ten years, I went out into town with a few family and friends for some NYE drinks and a curry. Sheffield was VERY quiet, hardly anyone out.
I remember that NYE used to be a huge event, pubs and restaurants would be heaving.
When we were kids we used to go with parents to do First Footing (Furst fittin) by visiting friends and families in the area. Lights were on in most if not all houses!!
Lots of alcohol consumed and home by 9am
Not nowadays - seldom hear or see a party let alone lights on in houses.
Jim
Sorry to keep you waiting Tony.
Pain in the butt.
I suspect that the Big Happy comes from people who have forgotten the art and pleasure of regular public drunken socialising.
A pub is for life - not just Christmas.
LOL
Nah it’s always been a thing down here. Jumping in the fountains in Trafalgar Square, watching or setting off fireworks. The assertion that the new year doesn’t start until you sleep, so that’ll be the 3rd then.
I never stayed in Yorkshire over the festive season when I lived there as the place was cold, slightly angry and rather standoffish once the quality street became more prominent in Woolies. I suspect it’s all a front to preserve the stoic, martyred facade. Still, whatever makes you feel better, happy new year.
Quite.
Anybody else getting fireworks this evening?
I suppose it should be encouraged if people have decided they were too drunk to do it safely at midnight last night, but does seem to go on quite a bit.
Fortunately our dog is a working one, and isn’t the least bit bothered by loud bangs.
It's raining stair rods here at the moment, so for now it's keeping the muppets indoors.
Surely reason enough to be cheerful!
Happy New Year all........ even you grumpy ones! ;-)
We always worked it that Christmas was a time for the family, and New Year was a time for celebrating with your mates.
We had 12 of us round the table this New Year's for a meal I had spent most of the day preparing, and it was great. My lad was out at a party with his mates, and my daughter was in the TV lounge having a laugh with a relatively small bunch of her mates.
Great fun all round.
People can be as Bah humbug as they like, there are precious few times to properly sit down with a load of your mates and enjoy food, company and wine for 4 hours or more, and I for one will take every one of those opportunities that I can.
The timing of Christmas and New Year dates from comfortably before the calendar or the religion, it is a time to realise that the darkest of the winter is past, and there are things to look forward to. That's worth celebrating
^^^ spot on!
I was born in the 1960s and one of our neighbours in the 1970s always had a great NYE party, that was a big part of my later childhood and teens.
Obviously it's now just an excuse for letting of the noisiest fireworks possible, but it was always a 'thing' when I was growing up.
This year I was in bed at 11 and listened to the bongs on the radio.
Hootenanny has become a total piss-take in the last few years and, although I had an invite for drinks on NYE, the hassle of driving then (and only having a single drink) made it not worth the effort.
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we didn't get it either (power cut 9pm-4am)
after countless Hogmanay's in Edinburgh, quite happy to see it in then off to bed
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