Do you Celebrate New year's Eve

We always celebrate , usually with some friends. This year we are going to a New Year concert at a local pub with some Polish friends, an Italian friend and the rest are Aussies. Usually a couple of Scots but they can’t come this year. We used to have a big party and the kids would all go out at midnight bashing pots and pans and screeching. No longer, too much hard work and too much booze for us now.

The best New Year’s Eve I’ve ever had was when we went to a random pub and at midnight everyone piled out into the street and we all danced. Now I’m too tired to stay up.

When my parents moved to England in the 60s the English didn’t really celebrate Hogmanay- all the Scots did- I remember first footing, parties would go on right through to the next day, all us kids would get to say up.
I remember watching Andy Stewart bringing in the bells.
Now 60 yrs later, it will just be a quiet affair , homemade steak pie supper, dram of whiskey to toast the new year & bed.

11.45pm: We always head over to our corner bar for a toast into the New Year and to wish our bar friends well & my husband´s niece and her husband.

We have a round or 2 and then walk home. As we have one of our twin daughters and her husband here, they go out for the evening and we have their daughter with us & she has a Virgin non alcoholic cocktail ..

So we keep it early.

We very often spend a reasonably quiet evening with friends but this year, as we're due at the panto at 10.30am with DS , wife & our 2 DGSs, followed by a meal together, I think we'll be ready for a quiet evening in with the cats, a Box of chocolates, some fizz, the TV & an early night!!

I have participated in some wonderful New Years Eve parties in the past, Christmas was always for the Children in the family (even though I don’t have any of my own) and NYE for the adults. Last year all the family got together in a holiday lodge to celebrate NYE but for me, it was spoiled as there were almost more children, ranging age from 2 months to teenagers,than adults, and the whole evening revolved around their entertainment!!! I had them all here over Christmas, and they have planned a similar family gathering for NYE, but I think I am going to make my excuses and have a quiet night at home in my own. I will cook a nice meal and have a bottle of my favourite wine, watch the fireworks, and see the old year out (it’s not been a good one) and welcome the New Year with optimism! My best wishes to you all for good health, much love and every happines, and I hope you enjoy the occasion, however you choose to spend it xxx

I am from Europe and in Europe we always do

I’ve never really liked NYE not even when I was younger as I found it a bit maudlin, I have seven grandchildren the eldest being 30 so for the last 30 years we have stayed in and babysat various grandchildren doing a little party for them and seeing who can stay up until midnight, I have far more enjoyment doing this than being out with a load of drunken partygoers and the grandchildren love it

Now 60 yrs later, it will just be a quiet affair , homemade steak pie supper, dram of whiskey to toast the new year & bed
I’m surprised to read that as a Scot you apparently drink Irish (or is it Bourbon) whiskey 🤣🤣🤣

I genuinely think it's more of a thing for youngsters. I used to love it in my late teens and early 20's. nowadays we're usually at home and tucked up before midnight. If I had to choose I'd prefer to go out during the day on New Years Day.

I always loved New Years Eve, party time when I was younger. Now, I watch the fireworks all around and then celebrate my New Years Day Birthday! I was born at 3.20 am and remember my dad saying it was snowing so much that he had to get off his bike and walk to the hospital! Mom said the nurses were too busy celebrating to be much help, so she wasn't exactly excited to have the first baby of the year.

Nexus63, we were the same growing up, getting to stay up late and given the weakest shandy once we got to 12/13. Now it’s just the two of us, we’ll see in the new year send text messages to family and go to bed.

Yes.

Entire family gathering - spread over tables, islands in many rooms and Santa's Christmas grotto.

Abundance of nibbles, fruit, small desserts, Prosecco.

Cheese straws, salmon coulibiac, sliced turkey crown, sliced beef fillet, breads, stuffed mushrooms, crudites - daughters' favourites.

Crumbs this was so good to read. I thought we were a couple of odd balls , sometimes we are in bed at 9.30, knackered. I usually cook us the evening meal each night and tomorrow I will try and make it extra special somehow. I had imagined that the rest of the world was out celebrating.

Happy New Year to you all.

We always went to a party hosted by neighbours, over the years, the parties became dinner parties with just 4 couples instead of about 40 people. The last dinner party was New Year 2020, then Covid reared it’s ugly head! Sadly there are only 4 of us left and we don’t bother to get together. I may watch the London fireworks before going to bed.
grammaretto I hope your operation goes well- you may have to wait for your New Year champagne until you get home!

RosiesMaw2

^Now 60 yrs later, it will just be a quiet affair , homemade steak pie supper, dram of whiskey to toast the new year & bed^
I’m surprised to read that as a Scot you apparently drink Irish (or is it Bourbon) whiskey 🤣🤣🤣

Glen Moray whiskey- been in the cupboard a few years ha

I have never been keen on New Year's parties and am quite happy to be alone tomorrow evening.

I really do not like leaving my cats on their own, as the one especially is afraid of fireworks.

But I make myself a good dinner, listen to the Monarch's speech which in Denmark is a New Year Eve's event, not a Christmas one, phone my sisters-in-law in the early evening, as the one and her husband will either have guests or be guest somewhere, and the other, poor soul, will topple gratefully into bed at midnight as soon as she has given her ill husband his last pills of the day.

We used to go out to celebrate. Now it's dinner for two and bedtime when we feel like it. I was in a charity shop this morning and everyone was saying how they disliked New Year.

New Years Eve in bed by 10pm with ear plugs firmly inserted. Just heard Hogmanay in Edinburgh has been cancelled this year due to the weather!

Did all the first footing in the north east 🇬🇧 years ago. Got older but not much wiser and usually head for bed just after midnight.

I might be too miserable to even post in this thread. We go to bed early and hope to be asleep by the time the fireworks start. Lol I'm such a scrooge.

I had a Scottish grandmother who lived with us so we always celebrated Hogmanay. All bills had to be paid on New Year's Eve, except obviously things like mortgages etc, so that you started each year not in debt. It's a habit I have continued and it is a great feeling to wake on Jan 1st and know you are 'sort of' starting afresh. We had the usual drinks, shortbread, cake and we watched the TV shows - much better then, in my opinion, than today. We lived in Ireland where it wasn't celebrated so much so it was a home celebration. Only in Scotland did we get the rowdy ones. The publican next door to us would come in immediately after midnight to 'first foot' my grandmother bringing with him coal, cake, drink and a coin. Taught by my grandmother, he would throw the coal on the fire with the words 'lang may your lum reek'. I still use that expression today. For those not familiar with the expression, a lum was a chimney and reek meant smoke. So, may you always be warm and healthy, have plenty to eat and drink and money for your needs. I still stay up but will be on my own as my husband retires early these days. I will Alexa my sisters and my daughters will WhatsApp me or phone on 1st. Amazing that we will be in to the quarter of the century. It seems like only yesterday we were bringing in the new millennium.
So, Happy Hogmanay/New Year to you all.

For years, have spent NYE with close friends. Husband was late DH's best man in 1965, and it's wife's birthday on 31st. One year at theirs, one year here. I'm off to theirs in the morning.
I think it will be a quiet evening, unlike the time in about 1976 when DH became the old year, long cotton-wool beard, white sheet, scythe; best man was the new year in a big white towel nappy and a whisky bottle with a lamb's teat. There were others there that night, and a lot of booze.

I was brought up in the northeast to celebrate as neighbours walked door to door calling Happy New Year. First, Dad was put outside to take the old year away and bring in the New Year with a lump of coal, a bit of bread, and a pinch of salt! Washed down with a drop of whisky!

I guess all I did has become only memories since my husband passed away in 2019. I had nobody to "first foot" for me anymore. This year, I will likely watch TV, the fireworks, and get to bed.

Happy New Year to you all!

We usually spend NYE here at our Suffolk seaside abode and it’s the same this year. We’ll have a curry and watch TV.
At midnight we go out into the garden with a glass of something to welcome in the New Year, looking out to sea and maybe catching a fireworks display along the coast.. Back indoors to a warm cosy cottage to see the London Fireworks on TV.