What are your plans for New Years Eve?

My days of spending NYE dancing and celebrating are long over I'm afraid! I now find I am thinking of going to bed at the time when I used to be just going out!

I will watch TV (or more likely put on a favourite DVD) have a glass of wine - and then be in bed by 10.30

One of our friends is 88 and she never misses a NYE celebration, hip replacement, knee replacements and all! She’ll have a dance given the opportunity,too. Sometimes I feel exhausted just looking at her- she lives life to the full plus plus

We are spending New Year at a hotel on the coast with another couple. There will be a special dinner on NYE with a live band for dancing afterwards and a raffle for the local hospice. The rest of the time will be spent walking in the area although the forecast is for almost non stop rain.

Does anyone remember the year the Millenium ticked over? The friends I spoke of were dining with us that year; we would do turn and turn about. Then we put on our coats, took a bottle of champagne and glasses and went across the road to our local park, which is one of the highest points in the city, to join a great sea of people, locals and non locals, who had gathered on the hill to see the fireworks go off across the city. The atmosphere and the spectacle were amazing; cordial and inclusive and no bad behaviour, and all joining hands to sing Auld Lang Syne.

I expect I'll be asleep. If the sound of fireworks wakes me up, I have a large Baileys and a mug of tea in bed, read some more of my book

Otherwise known as Hogmanay in our part of the world. A quiet night at home now as our days of raucous partying and eightsome reels are far behind us. What halcyon times they were though. Ah, well. We will raise a glass of rosé champagne to those who are gone but not forgotten. Slainte Mhath. 🥂

The Millennium we had a party at my mums house we stayed there til about 3am. We walked the mile home through the woods it was thick snow.

I was in bed with flu (proper flu) on Millennium Eve

No energy for anything, will be in bed by 9ish.

NYE is pretty big here, almost as big as Christmas itself. Must be all those lively Celtic migrants. We always do the Auld Lang Syne bit at midnight, wherever we are.

We will stay at home because our poor old dog hates fireworks! However, our eldest daughter, who did the Christmas meal, is having all our family round for dinner on New Year's Day and I am really looking forward to that!

Spending it with friends. There will be fire, food, fancy dress, fireworks on the beach at midnight, a couple more drinks, and then a longish but leisurely walk home.

I did much the same for the millennium, as it happens.

Jools Holland's Hootenanny! With a bottle of mulled wine.

Probably go to bed and be grumpy when the fireworks wake me up!

I’ve been in the fountain in Trafalgar Square at New Year Greyduster My friend had “borrowed” her Mum’s fur coat and we spent the early hours trying to dry it out with a hairdryer before she found out!

DanniRae

We will stay at home because our poor old dog hates fireworks! However, our eldest daughter, who did the Christmas meal, is having all our family round for dinner on New Year's Day and I am really looking forward to that!

I’ll see you on here then Danni
I think I’ll start a support thread for scared dogs and their furious worried caregivers

I’ll be home alone for the first time but I’m quite looking forward to watching telly in my pyjamas with something yummy to eat that has taken no effort to prepare and cook.

I’ll see in the NY with Jools Holland and no doubt shed a tear at midnight remembering those I have lost but I will toast the future - whatever it may bring.

We have a meal booked and am hopeful we'll be OK health wise by Saturday evening as we had to cancel our Christmas Eve meal out due to this horrible cold which is going about at the moment.

Will be seeing the New Year in with a few neighbours. Not one for going to pubs anymore - dislike the crush and noise. (Used to love it when younger, but I suppose tastes change over the years).

Don't like NYE. Usually go to bed to bring the next year in quicker! This year, I'm just ambivalent. I certainly won't go out, but it's just another evening.

Celebrating with a group of friends, don't really like NYE, but good company and a few drinks makes it more bearable.

No plans yet!!
May stay in but in the past we have been invited out for meal and then back to Sil's uncle and had a great evening.
We keep our plans flexible - the thought of a party on the longest evening ever is not one that we relish - would rather watch a movie with a drink and nibbles!!

My letting my hair down NYE days are way behind me, either up in Trafalgar Square many, many years ago, slightly worse for the wear parties and then quieter dinner parties with friends. None of that this year ,
we've agreed to have our grandchildren stay over so their parents can do the NYE of their choice. We will have a glass or two of but probably be in bed with a book or asleep by midnight and hope they will be too!

Considering the last 2 NYE’s, both me and DH like staying up to celebrate, so we are going to a nearby pub that is a ticket venue only, Hog roast, live music although don’t know what type of music, £20 a ticket which I didn’t think was too bad. I know of a lot of hospitality venues are doing 3-4 course dinner with music, extortionate price of anywhere £40-60 pp, what we are doing, the price of £20 sits with us.Happy upcoming New Year to all, whatever you choose to do.

We'll have a quiet evening in as usual I guess.

The ships in the harbour all sound their horns at midnight so certainly won't be sleeping through! It's lovely.

Hopefully sleeping, reading, eating in front of our own home fire.

Since last Thursday we have been at our DS’s house helping him and his partner look after 3 ill children, one of which is in hospital, hopefully to be released today. Coughing, sickness and worse from them all.

However we have turned a corner today so hopefully we will be released tomorrow. 🥳🥳