Over here all the bars and restaurants need to be closed and locked by 12:00, so it was gonna be damp squib. But all the bars and restaurant in the square, have agreed to celebrate the Spanish mainland NYE, which will be at 11:00 here Then we can all have a drinky after.
So we're gonna nip home at 11:30 and invite some pals round to see in the NY here and watch all the fireworks from the top balcony. The big hotel display has been cancelled but there'll be loads of smaller ones. We can see for miles up there
Fizz and beer till 1:15 so folk can get home before the 1:30 curfew kicks in.
We have a curfew here - no one outside 20:00-06:00 (I think). It's being lifted on Christmas Eve, but not NYE
Good chance I'll sneak out onto the snow front for midnight (if it's clear skies). But other than that, I'll be home. Might open a bottle of fiz I got for my birthday last year but I won't drink all of it, so seems like a bit of a waste!!
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Hopefully posh gin will have turned up and by 2200 I’ll be asleep on the sofa.
"Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?"
"My dear Doctor, they're all true."
"Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies."
Fruity wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:12 pm
I'm on call this week until 7am Christmas morning, then off the rota for four days, then back on call until 7am January 2nd
I'd blame poor planning but I was on a different shift rota up until the end of October.
To answer the original question, an early night if I'm lucky
We had kids when we were young and we could never get a babysitter on NYE, so it became a tradition to stay in and that's what we did for a couple of decades, usually in bed by 10pm.
Now the kids are all growed up we've been able to do something, but we're not into the drunken party stuff and all the whooping and shouting that goes on at midnight, so we've tried to do something different - sat on top of a (small) mountain with friends one year, sat out in the desert on a safari the next and last year we sat on the beach with extended family that came over.
This year we're going out on our sailing boat, just us and the (grown up) kids. I'm looking on the bright side, no extended family, no boyfriends or friends, just us, I'm looking forward to it. We'll sit offshore on the anchor and watch the fireworks with some music on, I don't feel like celebrating much this year, a lot of people have had an awful time, but we'll talk about the year and be grateful for what we have.
Harry wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:10 am... don't feel like celebrating much this year, a lot of people have had an awful time, but we'll talk about the year and be grateful for what we have.
This.
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno
There's a tradition of the people in our little town all heading down to the square for midnight and counting down to midnight using the big clock in the square. It's always been an unofficial, unmarshalled event, with the pubs (2) around the square putting on some fireworks.
No idea what'll happen this year though, it's too small an area for people to congregate and socially distance outside. We're tier 2 at the moment though so it might be just lighting a huge fire in our garden and having a few people sat around it, would be nice to-do something though, not necessarily a party but just to give a bit of hope.
Harry wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:10 am... don't feel like celebrating much this year, a lot of people have had an awful time, but we'll talk about the year and be grateful for what we have.
This.
Last year I didn’t celebrate as my friends daughter (who I’d known since she was 5) killed herself on 29th. This year I do really want to sneak out and sit on the snow front or maybe a bit up the mountain. Doubt there’ll be fireworks or anything cos of the curfew. But would be good to sit and remember special people quietly here
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Sod all, we're in tier 3 and expect to be in tier 4 by then. In recent years, we've preferred staying in. Too many people place so much emphasis on one evening/day, it's ridiculous. We don't make NY resolutions either, as that just adds pressure that you don't need or want.
I suspect lots of people in the UK will be spending NYE quietly at home, but there's always going to be the ones who can't help themselves and do God knows what.
Rarely do anything anyway and being in tier 4 means we don’t have an option. So probably a film and some drinks and watch the
Fireworks at midnight and open the back door to let the old year out and then open the front door to let the new year in. My Nan always did this and I love the memory.
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Taipan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:35 pm
Rarely do anything anyway and being in tier 4 means we don’t have an option. So probably a film and some drinks and watch the
Fireworks at midnight and open the back door to let the old year out and then open the front door to let the new year in. My Nan always did this and I love the memory.
I love the door thing! Makes me wish I two doors so I could do this!! LOL
(I so had to rewrite that before hitting post!! LOL )
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Then we can all have a drinky after.
