What are your plans for New Years Eve?

I'll spend NYE cleaning the house, making Broth and Steak Pie for NYD dinner and having a nap so I can stay awake into the wee sma hours. In my old house, we would gather at the end of the road with neighbours, to watch the fireworks at Stirling Castle and Wallace's Monument. I may go along to join them but don't know yet what the family have planned.

None whatsover - how wonderfully liberating

Both grandsons staying with us on New Years Eve so their mum & dad can party! We’ll have our traditional NYE buffet, maybe watch a film on Netflix and do karaoke! The boys stay up to midnight now they’re older so, just before 12, we’ll all go out into the street with a bottle of champagne, toast any neighbours that are also out and watch the fireworks. This has become our NYE tradition since having grandchildren, and we love it. Our days of crowded pubs / clubs at New Year are long gone (and I don’t miss them)! Of course, in a few years the grandsons will be off and away themselves, so making the most of this precious time spent with them now.

We will watch the Queen of Denmark's new year speech to the nation on TV at 6 p.m. after which we usually take a bath and dress more formally than on an ordinary day. Eat a traditional New Year's dish for dinner, then see the New Year in at midnight with a fizzy non-alcoholic drink and go to bed when the fireworks settle down somewhere between one and two in the morning.

This year, I suspect we may well decide to drop the "Sunday best" and the usual menu as DH is poorly.

I shall certainly be up til at least two in the morning, as the one of our seven month old cats is scared silly of fireworks - here people have been letting them off for the last week or so. and she disappears at the rate of knots every single time.

I always used to love NYE. But these days it’s not so much fun as I usually spend it on my own.

I used to work a lot of Nyear nights ,I remember working the millennium one where rumours around saying all computers etc would go down at midnight so we were prepared and then nothing happened 😅 At home we don't often stay up now usually in bed 11ish.

No plans. We have had visitors since Christmas Eve and DD has been quite poorly. She is fine now and visitors leave tomorrow. Then we shall rest, catch up on any tv we have missed and get the house back to normal.

We don't make anything of NYE. Our children may come round which is fine, but we'd not know until they do.

Plan: cook meal, clean kitchen, put up dishes, walk dogs, sleep.

We haven't been out over New Year for many years. This year we'll have a nice steak and some wine and be in bed before midnight. On New Years day we'll go to our local cricket club where we have a fancy dress 1920's show.

Babysitting 8children so no peace for me it will be interesting how many will last out

greyd reminded me of the millennium NYE. As usual we shared the evening with friends. We began the pattern when we were neighbours and continued it after their two and our one house moves. Their turn to cook we enjoyed an excellent meal (our friend a far better cook than I), drank some wine before going across to their village green with fireworks. A phone call from our elder son who was in work on computer watch - do you recall all the dire predictions? Stayed over with our friends and returned home at lunch time the next day after a very large brunch.

This year one of the couple is in a Home, immobile and struggling cognitively. His wife is battling with her own health issues and finds walking a struggle. We’ll be thinking about them and our many shared NYE’s. Good memories even although now we prefer to be quiet.

I have a bottle of champagne to open. I will open the swan hatch to let the old year out and the bow door to let the new year in. I might watch the fireworks going off in the distance.... I always see the New Year in...

Caleo Thu 29-Dec-22 13:06:20
I have spent Hogmanay alone in my house every year for about thirty years and have created a ceremony suited to the solitary person at Hogmanay'

I have prepared candles and matches. I switch off all the lights before midnight. When midnight strikes I take a candle in its firm candlestick out the front door , light the candle there usually using many matches before succeeding, then bring the New Year light into my house. The I do the same outside the back door. When the ceremony is accomplished I have welcomed the new year into my house.
If ,as seems probable, I can no longer manage a candle I shall take an unlit electric torch outside and switch on outdoors then bring the New Year light into the darkened house.

To me that sounds ideal DH died 2 years ago and I dread Christmas and NY without him
Thank you Calco

I’m going to see Eric Clapton 🎸

6 burst pipes on the 20th destroyed our lounge and kitchen (bungalow and we were away) so no NYE celebrations. Even Christmas and my birthday (27th) cancelled

We are having our five year old DGS for few days. We will be having fireworks early on NYE and we’ve promised him a few hours at the beach while he’s with us. We’ll all be in bed before the bells to recoup our energy.

We will be looking after our grandson overnight so my daughter and her partner can have a rare night out.

I love Livey’s idea. 2022 has been one of the worst years ever for our family so I shall bid it farewell without a backward glance and just hope and pray for a better 2023.
A happy and healthy 2023 to all GNs!

A special meal for just us, we’ll watch Jools and retire soon after. The years of fancy dress parties in our local or friends round for dinner were great, but quieter now.

i will be on my own and it is fine, i will stay up till midnight as being scottish i have my silly tradition of opening the window to let the old year out and the door to let the new year in, i will stand in my veranda and listen to the boats toot there horns on the clyde and watch any fireworks and wish my husband of 18 years and then my partner of the last 18 years a happy new year.

My two youngest grandchildren will be having sleepover chez moi, so an early night all round.

Our days of First Footing are over. We used to go from house to house having a drink and then a party at the last house.
After spending Christmas with the family we are having a meal for two at home, we'll wait until 12 and sing Auld Lang Syne, I'll inevitably cry then go to bed to get phoned by DD who will have done the same.

In on my own as usual. Shall have a nice dinner, some fizz and some wine, and catch up on recorded tv programnes. Shall watch the fireworks at midnight. Then bed.....

Nothing for a while.
I would love a cup of tea at midnight.
Everyone I've known gets ridiculously drunk.
I'd love a genuine conversation. With a cup of tea.

Used to always have fancy dress parties, there were great fun….Now, catch up on University Challenge and Only Connect.Then the Detectorists…love that.Happy New Year ,you lovely lot!