Celebrating New Year

I've got my son here but he'll either be on his Xbox or in bed!! Carers coming in at 8.50pm to put me to bed (have MS and can't walk) so I'll be watching Jools and hoping next year will be better than this one!!

???Happy New Year to all on Gransnet, you certainly brighten my day. ???

Quiet night in watching tv and snoozing off and on. Hoping for a happy and peaceful new year for us all. Xx

DH is working tomorrow and has to be up at 4.30 so it's bed tonight early for us here. Xxx

Over the last 56 years we have hosted parties, gone to parties in others' homes or in Messes or clubs and generally done the celebration thing but this year, I think for the first time, we are home alone and will be watching tv, toasting each other and probably going to bed before midnight! Phone calls to family and friends tomorrow before going to a New Year's Day open house at friends.
Happy new year to all.

We have gone to DS' s in recent years as they have our DGS, & his in laws have come along too and we've played a murder mystery, complete with dressing up. This year, we're actually going to a party, dress code smart casual. My dearest friend married this year for the first time at the age of 60 years and one day so she & her lovely new husband are hosting a do. Really looking forward to it ?

Well with a 3 month old puppy we won’t be going out. Mind you last NYE OH and I both fell asleep by midnight. Probably the same this year.
I shall open a bottle of Prosecco anyway but as I have to be up at 8 to let pup out won’t be staying up much later than midnight if I do stay awake!

Best foot forward in 2018! xxxxxx

My lack of enthusiasm for NYE and NYD never went down too well with my late husband, a Northumbrian born, bred and raised. My parents never made much of it, other than my dad being pushed outside at 11.59pm and, having visited the coal shed, coming back in with some coal and kissing us all. Here in Northumberland, maybe forty years ago, parties and first footing were very big but it doesn't seem as popular these days. Being your own first foot was considered unlucky. As a child, I remember visiting my grandparents in Liverpool and being in bed but awake at midnight listening to the tugboats on the Mersey blowing their hooters to welcome the new year.

This year my eldest son will be here but he might go down to the pub for the evening. I'll watch TV, have a glass of something and see the new year in, probably alone. That's fine. If my son is out, I might wait for him to get back but likely I'll go to bed soon after midnight.

Happy New Year to all GNers xxx

Just had roast chicken dinner Xmas pud mince pies and cream, followed by coffee and wine.
Watching top of the pops with gd. Got last two episodes of Joan and Bette to watch and whatever rubbish is on tele.
Watch neighbours fireworks from our living room window

I have never celebrated New Years Eve, it's a normal day for us and we shall be tucked up in a warm bed 11 ish. Bliss

Just arrived in rainy Kent. Sitting with mug of tea by a log fire. Later I can ply the bellows and the poker as in days of yore! I’ve told a GS that I’m available for (simple!!) board games for the duration, he looked pleased.
D and SiL in the kitchen, fragrant spices and rosemary emanate. I’m looking forward to a lovely meal and a glass or three of celebratory bubbles.
Then I begin, for the third time, to drink only tap water for the month of January for WATERAID. Please consider joining me, you soon become accustomed to it. I cannot imagine having no lavatory in a community, or walking miles for water which may be dirty or toxic but is all I can offer my family. 2018 - can we make it a slightly better world for those less fortunate than ourselves?
Happy New Year! ?

Just arrived in rainy Kent. Sitting with mug of tea by a log fire. Later I can ply the bellows and the poker as in days of yore! I’ve told a GS that I’m available for (simple!!) board games for the duration, he looked pleased.
D and SiL in the kitchen, fragrant spices and rosemary emanate. I’m looking forward to a lovely meal and a glass or three of celebratory bubbles.
Then I begin, for the third time, to drink only tap water for the month of January for WATERAID. Please consider joining me, you soon become accustomed to it. I cannot imagine having no lavatory in a community, or walking miles for water which may be dirty or toxic but is all I can offer my family. 2018 - can we make it a slightly better world for those less fortunate than ourselves?
Happy New Year! ?

Oh thank you. Something else I've learned.

MissAdventure, it is New Years Day in Scotland, Hogmany is New Years Eve.

We’re not party people but we see the new year in with Jools Holland on the TV and a couple of glasses of something nice in hand. We stagger off to bed around about 1.30 feeling fairly cheerful and optimistic about what’s to come. I can’t think of a better way to begin a new year.

I have always loved New Years Eve. As children our parents held a big party on Christmas Day. Boxing Day was a family party held by an aunt and uncle. New Years Eve was another big event at a friends house.
As a parent we always held big parties on New Years Eve, mainly for the children.
This year we are going to a Bollywood Night held at our local Indian restaurant.
Then at midnight we have to eat twelve grapes, one on each chime. It is a Spanish tradition.
But our festivities are far from over we still have The Three Kings on January 6th.
Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2018.

What is Nee'rday, please? I've never heard of that term before.

What a lovely idea SallyCollings to write on pebbles of things you want to let go of. I think I might try this.
To all Gransnetters on their own this New Years Eve, look to the future and make plans to keep. HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone.

Memories of Hogmanay and Ne’rday as a child in the 50s were travelling to visit my mums sister, only after our house was cleaned from top to bottom, including cleaning out drawers etc., and making sure all the bills were paid. When we got to my aunts, copious amounts of ginger wine (and maybe a wee dram for the men only) was drunk, and we bairns were sometimes allowed to stay up for “The Bells”. On New Year’s Day my mother took me every year to a performance of The Messiah in Glasgow at midday. It lasted nearly 3 hours, and we took a flask of tea and sandwiches for the interval. Then back to my aunts for the Big Meal of the year....more so than Christmas. And sometimes we got presents for our Nee’rday.

DGS here tonight, just came downstairs, DD and SIL going to an 'event', they went to similar last year got fed up and my door opened at 11.45 to them with a bottle of Champagne.
I am invited out and could take DGS but i really cannot be bothered.
Also Scottish so the big clean has been done, except for scrubbing out the bathroom which I will do after DGS and I have showers. Quite funny really as DD has SIL polishing away upstairs and cleaning out cupboards etc. He says Scottish is "catching".
Have a good new year everyone and thanks for all the support over the years I have been on Gransnet.

Nothing special at all. Usually on my own. It's OK, I don't mind.

Just the two of us and my husband, who is a mad keen runner, is doing a NY race over in Wales and living up to my name I am going along to watch. That said it’s usually quite a good evening in a very small Welsh town with hundreds of people turning up, a fairground, fireworks etc. It’s a good evening if it stays dry. Wish me luck.

This year I will be celebrating with a cup of tea and bed about 10pm. I’ve got to leave for work at 6am!

Happy New Year to you all xxx

Going to friends there will be two other couples we dont know very well, we will have a meal then just talk until midnight, and after that come home, not very stimulating but it will be nice to get out of the house for a while, I am tired of the short and dark days, and am looking forward to the Spring. Happy New Year everyone.

I will sit up with the dog in case of fire works. Hubby will go to bed. Son and partner who live with us will go to our other son and his wife. We don't get an invite. As with a lot of parents we are only wanted when something goes wrong or money is needed.