anno be careful when you are driving home. I got stopped by a rather unpleasant policeman for driving too slowly and not indicating that I was leaving a small roundabout when I was driving mrA and his mate home from the sailing club dinner recently. Apparently I should have approached the roundabout at 40mph, as that was the speed limit. 
Happy New Year all.
I would like to echo what Lona has said. The kitchen has been a haven in more than a few storms and we owe so much to its founder and hostess.
To you soop, macsporran and all the rest of you lot may I wish all possible health and contentment in 2016.
It may not always be plain sailing but with soop at the helm, it's "heave ho, me hearties! All aboard 2016!"
Happy Hogmanay!
Happy New Year to all! Shared a bottle of Argentine Malbec with DH over a Spag Bol dinner! It was gorgeous! A gift from SiL. Not a great New Year's Eve person so guess I will take my book to bed as usual and wake up to 2016! Peace, Good Health and every good wish to you all.
Dear Soop, a very happy and hopefully healthy 2016 to you both.
Had a toasted muffin with butter and apricot jam! Now bed!
Night all 
I hope you do have a much better year AlieO, and that all your family get back on an even and happy keel again.
A Happy and Healthy New Year to you all. We stayed in (with our colds and bad backs etc. 
) went to bed at our normal time and were still reading when the fireworks started. I couldn't resist getting up to look and DH joined me to see the lights and fireworks all along the coast. Didn't stay there long, it's a good job we haven't got any close neighbours to see me standing there in my fleece and nightie. 
It's traditional to have fireworks at midnight here in Portugal but it wasn't in England when we left UK. It sounds strange to me. I suppose it started with the millennium celebrations.
Alea I hope you and Grace had a good night and she is feeling better.
A Happy and Healthy New Year to all Soop's Kitcheners 
It was pizza and Scrabble with friends last night, After midnight I cleared a coat of ice from the windscreen and drove home perfectly sober. So a Happy New Year to my kitchener friends and good health to you and yours. Cheers!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It has taken an age to read all your comments.. I opened the kitchen door quietly...thinking you lovely lot would be feeling a tad sleepy. It is a treat to find so many Kitcheners oot and aboot.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your company. I shall be ever grateful to Gransnet for introducing you all into my life.
AlieO A very special virtual hug from me to you.
Last evening MacSporran cooked a very tasty joint of lamb. We had mincemeat tart for "afters". I always wash the dishes. I enjoyed two glasses of sloe gin and MacS partook of a couple of drams of his favourite malt. We then watched Midsomer Murders and, after the ten o'clock news, we took to our beds. I read for fifteen minutes, and awoke at 8:30 this morning.
The day is crispy cold. In fact, I would swear that late yesterday evening, there was a brief flurry of snow.
We lit the fire after breakfast. We then watched the New Year's Day concert in Vienna. The music was joyful. The dancers were marvellous and the costumes were spectacular. Any other Kitcheners tune in to the concert? It is a very special event.
To all of you, in particular those of you who are lonely, sick or having to deal with bereavement or on-going family issues, I send my love and very best wishes for the year ahead.
Cheers, anno , and to all other kitcheners. I don't pop in as much as many of you, but still feel a part of soop's gang!
I've just returned from London visiting family. It's been over a year since I'd last seen my youngest granddaughter, and it was marvellous. 
Wishing you all a peaceful 2016.
Crossed posts, so cheers to you too, soop! Hope to meet up with you in the Spring - fingers crossed.
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