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What are people doing for New Year’s Eve/Day?

ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
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So what are people doing for this year‘s New Year’s Eve and Day? At my local grocery store (Publix) I just bought pork, black-eyed peas, and collard greens for New Year’s Day. I always watch the tournament of roses parade. Not sure what I’m going to do New Year’s Eve yet.
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  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Have not gotten that far yet. Think we might have some neighbors over.
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Hogmanay? Wondering if I should make cranachan with raspberries, Scotch, honey, cream and oatmeal.
  • LatchKeyKidLatchKeyKid Shipmate
    We are flying home from Adelaide. The cheaper flights were New years eve and new year, and I decided not to chance the state of the passengers on the morning after New Year's Eve.
    A friend has a birthday on Jan 1, so we may go to annual beach vigil and go home at the turn of the year.
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    #2 daughter arrives from UK on the 30th and I return from Van Diemen’s Land on the 28th. Quiet night in with the cats methinks
  • CathscatsCathscats Shipmate
    Black Bun would be a more traditional offering in Scotland at New Year. But with you the rasps will be fruiting, so why not cranachan?
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    I’ve invited a friend round on NYE but we won’t be staying up to see the New Year in. I may ask a couple more friends who are now widowed.
    My granddaughter’s birthday is on New Year’s Day but she doesn’t want any fuss. I hope to see her at some point, but she is getting money into her account as her gift.
  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    We never do much. Watch the fireworks on TV and go to bed!
    Likely to have a nice meal though. Probably roast pheasant.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I will be working on New Year's Eve, so I will be wearing my kilt with a plaid and big silver and (pretend) garnet brooch. Later in the evening I have some Balvenie whisky to sip.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    I haven’t gone out for New Year’s Eve for a few years, so will probably play a few strategy games and watch the fireworks before going to bed. I am assuming Master Heavenly the Elder will go out, if he is still around and not back in York.
    I’m hoping for a quiet New Year’s Day too as most of our visitors will have gone. I’m thinking something healthy for a change, perhaps a delicate meal of fish and vegetables with a citrus dressing. And a nice walk in the countryside.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    My food plans have already changed as our postman greeted us this morning with a couple of brace of pheasants! So our New Year meal will probably be a pot roast of pheasant, white wine, mushrooms and cream.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    We are going to the New Year party at my in-laws' church. We went last year and it was quite fun, and given the part of the world where we are, excellently provisioned with food.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Nothing special. Same shit, different number.
    :unamused:
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    MaryLouise wrote: »
    Hogmanay? Wondering if I should make cranachan with raspberries, Scotch, honey, cream and oatmeal.
    That sounds wonderful (and pace @Cathscats, more to my liking than Black Bun). We generally have fairly quiet NYEs. Some friends—not close friends, but friends—called yesterday to see if we could join them at a restaurant on NYE, so that’s the current plan.


  • Celtic KnotweedCeltic Knotweed Shipmate
    In previous years one of my aunts has thrown a good Hogmanay do. Unfortunately she died this summer 😭, and her widower is still grieving (not a surprise, they'd been together about 50 years). So we'll probably have a night in with a dram of whisky. Might make cranachan if I find time to shop for raspberries (at work on 30th).
  • Merry VoleMerry Vole Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    Nothing special. Same shit, different number.
    :unamused:

    Aww that's a shame. Wish I could come over to your Ark and crack open a few bottles...
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Merry Vole wrote: »
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    Nothing special. Same shit, different number.
    :unamused:

    Aww that's a shame. Wish I could come over to your Ark and crack open a few bottles...

    Thanks! I will, I expect, indulge in a wee dram or three during the course of the evening...
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Cathscats wrote: »
    Black Bun would be a more traditional offering in Scotland at New Year. But with you the rasps will be fruiting, so why not cranachan?

    Yes, mid-summer here and I need to go lightly on the oatmeal. When I was a child in Zimbabwe, all the expat Scottish families would express nostalgic longing for Black Bun or haggis, neeps and tatties but then stick to salads and cold ham.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Staying home. I think my partying-in the New Year days are gone.
  • Graven ImageGraven Image Shipmate
    My mobile home park is planning a New Year's Eve Bingo party. I do not care for the game, but I might go for the company. Staying home with a good book sounds more exciting at the moment. New Year's Day will have to include some greens and black-eyed peas.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Graven Image wrote: »
    New Year's Day will have to include some greens and black-eyed peas.
    Absolutely! And ham or some other form of pork.

    New Year’s Day is actually the only time all year I’ll voluntarily eat collards.


  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I'm going to my sister's, and like Mary Louise, the food may include cranachan (although I make it with Drambuie rather than whisky).

    A few of the family will be there too, and I'm staying over so it should be a nice relaxed, fun evening.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Not sure yet what I'm doing, gotta' get that straightened out!
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    I'm going to my sister's, and like Mary Louise, the food may include cranachan (although I make it with Drambuie rather than whisky).
    I typically give it a Southern (American) twist and make it with bourbon.


  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    Nothing special on NY Eve. Will probably watch the New Year's Day concert from Vienna on the TV, if I remember.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    We usually have a nice meal but my days of staying up to see it in are over, I find it hard to keep awake beyond 9.30pm. Mr Nen, however, is travelling to a nearby church to ring the new year in.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    I now know my plans. The friend who I usually spend New Years with and I are going over to other friends for a very small gathering. We will watch a movie or two and have lasagna, and ice cream sundaes at midnight.
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    Mrs Spike & I are singing at a cathedral with a visiting choir this week, getting home some time in the evening of NYE. Don’t know what time we’ll be back, so we’ll probably have a Chinese takeaway washed down with a bottle of wine and see the new year in on TV
  • Gracious RebelGracious Rebel Shipmate
    It would have been my first NYE on my own (as I was staying with my sister in Italy last year) which I really couldn't cope with as I've always had someone with whom to share the bubbly at midnight (even had a low key version of this with A and her son two years ago which was just 3 weeks before she died)...so I mentioned this to a good friend at church, hoping to spend it together...and she's gone one better and agreed to host a party, complete with silly games, we've invited a load of other church people and others of her friends, and I've arranged to stay over.... I pretty much never go to bed before midnight any night of the year so I really appreciate this opportunity
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    edited December 29
    I want to go to the square to watch the fireworks. Mr Boogs wants to go to bed at 10:00 p.m. as usual.

    Will I run out of steam and join him?
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    When in doubt, don’t cave in. Go & watch fireworks.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    On the evening of New Year's Day, assorted lurgis allowing, the Knotweed and I intend to head South towards Harwell to see this:

    https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/LatestNews/2025/Harwell-lights-up-the-Oxfordshire-sky-to-celebrate-its-80th-anniversary.html

    I often wonder what Uncle Jimmy would have made of what goes on there these days. He served there back when Pontius was a pilot flying Gladiators, in the days of silver biplanes.
  • JLBJLB Shipmate
    Thanks for that link. My FIL spent his career at Harwell & Culham, so I've shown my husband and we'll think of a suitable vantage point on Thursday evening.
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    Celebrating our niece's birthday with a potluck supper.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    JLB wrote: »
    Thanks for that link. My FIL spent his career at Harwell & Culham, so I've shown my husband and we'll think of a suitable vantage point on Thursday evening.

    Mini shipmeet?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Tess Coe today were out of stock of my favourite Irish WHISKEY, New Year's Eve for the marking of, so I hope the village Co-Op will oblige tomorrow...
    :flushed:
  • Leorning CnihtLeorning Cniht Shipmate
    TheOrganist wrote: »
    Staying home. I think my partying-in the New Year days are gone.

    One of the benefits of being a transplanted Brit living in the US is that we can do "British New Year" at a civilized time, and then go to bed.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Leorning Cniht wrote: »
    TheOrganist wrote: »
    Staying home. I think my partying-in the New Year days are gone.

    One of the benefits of being a transplanted Brit living in the US is that we can do "British New Year" at a civilized time, and then go to bed.

    :lol:

    Very wise...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    Tess Coe today were out of stock of my favourite Irish WHISKEY, New Year's Eve for the marking of, so I hope the village Co-Op will oblige tomorrow...
    :flushed:

    There are some excellent varieties of Scotch whisky ... :mrgreen:
  • JLBJLB Shipmate
    Sandemaniac wrote: »
    JLB wrote: »
    Thanks for that link. My FIL spent his career at Harwell & Culham, so I've shown my husband and we'll think of a suitable vantage point on Thursday evening.

    Mini shipmeet?

    Thanks, but we probably won't need to get very near to Harwell to get a look.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Fairy snuff! We'll have to come down the A34 anyway, so will probably end up nearby.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Leorning Cniht wrote: »
    TheOrganist wrote: »
    Staying home. I think my partying-in the New Year days are gone.

    One of the benefits of being a transplanted Brit living in the US is that we can do "British New Year" at a civilized time, and then go to bed.

    [tangent]That's a big move to have made @Leorning Cniht . How long ago did you make it and do you still miss the UK?[/tangent]
  • Leorning CnihtLeorning Cniht Shipmate
    Nenya wrote: »
    Leorning Cniht wrote: »
    TheOrganist wrote: »
    Staying home. I think my partying-in the New Year days are gone.

    One of the benefits of being a transplanted Brit living in the US is that we can do "British New Year" at a civilized time, and then go to bed.

    [tangent]That's a big move to have made @Leorning Cniht . How long ago did you make it and do you still miss the UK?[/tangent]

    We moved more than 20 years ago, intending to be in the US for a couple of years. We haven't left yet, and now with children in all different phases of their education, moving again would be complicated.

    With the way the current administration seems to view performative cruelty as a sport, the idea of moving has crossed my mind more than once recently, but the UK is not exactly advertising itself as a beacon of kindness and civility these days.

    There are certainly things that I miss, but the extent to which those things are "British things I don't get in the US" vs "things I used to do in my youth that I don't have time to do any more" is a bit more complicated. And some of the things don't exist (or don't exist so much) in Britain now anyway, because everywhere changes in a couple of decades, so wistful feelings for a different place are mixed up with wistful feelings for a different time.

    There are all the obvious things I miss, though: proper BEER, bacon, nice sausages, bread with flavour, being able to get a cup of tea in a cafe and expect that it will be made right, but there are plenty of good things here, too. Whenever I go home, I find myself worrying about things like finding somewhere to park the car, or when the shops will be open. That's just not something I think about here, because in suburbia, all the shops have big car parks, and they're basically always open whenever I think that I might need to go.

    I miss cycling to work, but that's more a function of the climate than the country. If we'd moved somewhere on the West coast, and I had less than a 10 mile commute, I'd probably be cycling.

  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Interesting; thank you. We may be making a move next year, nowhere near as big as yours but still pretty life-changing in terms of location, and I'm hoping I'll be able to embrace it and not spend too much time feeling homesick. I take the point that wistful feelings for a different place are mixed up with wistful feelings for a different time.
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    Preliminary fireworks just starting here in Sydney ( just after 9 pm AEST). I understand close to a million on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour. I’m about 2 km away as the crow flies and happy to be home. It is about 20 years since I did a New Year’s Eve overnighter or a 16 hr New Year’s Day shift in St Vincent’s Hospital ER ( at the epicentre) and it could be hell on earth due to alcohol and drug -fuelled assaults, bog standard P(issed) and F(fell)O(ver) plus the usual medical emergencies. I understand that heavily-armed cops will be everywhere after the recent Chanukah horror at Bondi Beach. I can’t see Gentile New Year as a target for observant Jews, quite frankly, however anything that makes life less hellish for ED staff is all to the good.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Shipmate
    We are having a quiet New Year’s this evening, may or may not stay up late. We often have a few friends in for New Year’s and make a Provençal daube. This time it’s just the Daube and us (and a nice bottle of wine from somewhere reasonably geographically appropriate for Daube). Guaranteed to generate leftovers for the freezer, which is not a bad thing.

    The last of our garden’s thyme went into the Daube. It was doing pretty well considering it’s in a not-very-big pot on our back stairs and the weather has been chilly. Hopefully it will come back next year with more.
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    Happy New Year everyone. We had a very nice evening drinking wine and playing games. We saw the new year in from my bedroom window which had a great view of all the fireworks being let off in gardens in our town.
    Off to bed now.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Eaten too much, set off fireworks, watching crap on the telly. Walk up Glastonbury Tor tomorrow.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Well, I fell asleep 10 minutes into Graham Norton's show and only woke because a small boy was having a bit of a cry. I hope I squeaked in under the radar for the celebrity death pool ... 🤞
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    I'll be cleaning the house and working on my research, as usual. I hope the Vietnamese superstition doesn't hold true--namely, that what you do on the New Year you will do all year!
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    I'll be sorting and tidying but also seeing a friend for coffee and having some other friends over to a meal in the evening. If that's what the new year holds for me it doesn't sound too bad.
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