I'm going to blame you for this @punkdoc - sorry. Last night I watched SPOTY -just the last bit. I could tell what my younger daughter was thinking as she was sitting next to me and watching me blub constantly. 'The best of men'.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks @Fairygirl my wife had it first, so I guess it was inevitable, as I said yesterday on the Forkers thread, it might have been better if we both had it at the same time. My real concern is that I still have to complete the DVLA eye test to renew my license. ( the machine broke down part way through before Christmas). At the moment my eyes ache so much I doubt if I could do it properly.
I don't know if there's a "Grinch" equivalent of New Year's Eve, but if there is, then l am it 😁.
I used to absolutely loathe NYE parties, which was quite difficult at times because my OH used to help organise a couple back in the day. I used to make sure l was in the ladies loo (shut in a cubicle at midnight), and waited until the cheering, kissing and murdering of Auld lang syne had finished before venturing back to the room. I did feel bad about not being with OH, but he said he didn't mind.
As he pointed out, he was being kissed by other women without his wife present, and he could kiss me anytime for the rest of the year 😁.
We spend NY Eve and Day at home,hibernating but enjoying good meals. For many years in Belgiu we'd go to NY dinner dances - 3 of which I organised for our ballroom dance club - and they were great. You can't dance if drunk so they were sober but very merry affairs and the only kissing of the hordes was of cheeks, in true continental fashion.
OH has had a cold since the week before my birthday, so mid November. He passed it to Possum for Xmas. He's better, at last, but still a bit bunged up in the mornings. We've been sleeping in separate rooms since I developed my new cervical slipped disc so I don't have it yet and don't plan to but it remains to be seen whether mind will prevail over matter. We are all up to date with Covid and flu jabs.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I used to love going out NYE, but now prefer a much quieter affair away from all the noise and bustle. We are popping over to a neighbours house to see the New Year in with a few drinks and nibbles - there’ll be 5 of us, I think. We won’t be late home, just after midnight I imagine. That suits me better than pubs and parties these days - been there, done that, got the T shirt 😂.
We don't "do" new year here either. If I had my way we'd celebrate the winter solstice instead (which is for me the turning point of the year, a natural phenomenon rather than one invented by humans).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We have partied the night away on NYE in the past but now prefer a quiet night in. Too many lurgies around at the moment and I have a hospital appointment on Monday. I shall be in bed with my Kindle before midnight!
We are having a lovely meal at home: aged short rib of beef, cep and creamed cabbage, and I will choose a lovely bottle of red. I will probably stay up to watch Jools and by the time I get to bed, Moira will be snoring [ melodiously! ]
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
We have a lobster each and a bottle of fizz … we’ll eat it at our normal supper time and probably go to bed before 10. If the local fireworks wake us we might open the blinds and have a look 💥 We’ll record Jools Hootenanny… there’s usually someone good on 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Last night I watched SPOTY -just the last bit. I could tell what my younger daughter was thinking as she was sitting next to me and watching me blub constantly.
'The best of men'.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I used to absolutely loathe NYE parties, which was quite difficult at times because my OH used to help organise a couple back in the day.
I used to make sure l was in the ladies loo (shut in a cubicle at midnight), and waited until the cheering, kissing and murdering of Auld lang syne had finished before venturing back to the room.
I did feel bad about not being with OH, but he said he didn't mind.
As he pointed out, he was being kissed by other women without his wife present, and he could kiss me anytime for the rest of the year 😁.
OH has had a cold since the week before my birthday, so mid November. He passed it to Possum for Xmas. He's better, at last, but still a bit bunged up in the mornings. We've been sleeping in separate rooms since I developed my new cervical slipped disc so I don't have it yet and don't plan to but it remains to be seen whether mind will prevail over matter. We are all up to date with Covid and flu jabs.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We’ll record Jools Hootenanny… there’s usually someone good on 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.