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Mike Jackson
In bed by ten, wake up at midnight and moan about the fireworks. Don't do new years eve any more. It's got too expensive to go out, minimum £20 to get into a pub which will be overcrowded plus we can't both go out because won't leave the dogs on their own when there are fireworks going off.
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Mike Jackson
I feel it's only fair to do the same to our neighbours if they make too much noise late at night. It's amazing how much noise I can make when I go out at 6 in the morning.
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tamz
New strings on the guitar Steve :smile:
20 quid to get into a pub Mike, are they having a laff!!
I've always spent hogmanay at house parties. Usually just a sing song type affair.
In years gone by most people had an open door policy where you just walked along the street with a carry out and looked for a light on. They would last for 3 or 4 days at a time but that doesn't happen now.
Fireworks are not so much a problem here but it can get a bit like gunfight at the ok corral with the amount of shotguns blasting away for a minute or 2 :smile:
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Resolute
I'm off to the neighbours, kids invited too so should be a laugh.
Will have to be good and stick to the beer as I'm on call New Years Day!
Will have to be good and stick to the beer as I'm on call New Years Day!
First off I`m a dog person Mike, mine died and I`ve never had another but middle sis has 2, Mr T will run n hide some where dark at the first bang wizz and the other one Jack, sits at the window watching with his tail going ten to the dozen and a friend of mine has a HUGE German shepherd and he insists on sharing the armchair with her.
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tamz
I've got a scottie and a westie. The scottie gets excited when you light the cooker but the westie just sits and looks at fireworks. They don't seem to bother him.
Btw they are going with me.
Btw they are going with me.
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Mike Jackson
£20 is the cheapest, some places are charging £50 or more to get in. Years ago we used to go from pub to pub and celebrate new year in whichever one we found ourselves in at midnight. Rarely any trouble and what trouble there was was normally a wee bit of fisticuffs that was soon forgotten. Nowadays there's a bouncer on every pub door and if a fight breaks out someone ends up getting stabbed. It's not a nice atmosphere any more.
As for fireworks, they normally start around 11 and finish between 1 and 2. I could cope with a few rockets at midnight. We're lucky as Bertie and Arthur aren't too badly affected. One of my neighbours goes away at New Year and bonfire night because her dogs are rescues and petrified of fireworks.
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tamz
Btw there is a ritual up here for hogmanay which is go out the way you mean to come in.
Basically it means that if your place is a tip at the bells it will be a tip all year and no self respecting woman will have that.
Tomorrow my wee woman will be up at 7 making sure the house is spick and span with not a thing out of place (she's already been at it for a few days).
Come around 8 o'clock she will be at me to get showered and shaved and changed into my new year clothes which she has laid out on the hangers for me.
My clothes i take off will be into the washer then drier and ironed and put away before 10 then she will look around to make sure she hasn't missed anything then off to the party.
And it is not just her. My mother was/is like that, my 1st wife was like that, all my mates wives are like that to certain degrees.
Maybe just a working class thing :smile:
Basically it means that if your place is a tip at the bells it will be a tip all year and no self respecting woman will have that.
Tomorrow my wee woman will be up at 7 making sure the house is spick and span with not a thing out of place (she's already been at it for a few days).
Come around 8 o'clock she will be at me to get showered and shaved and changed into my new year clothes which she has laid out on the hangers for me.
My clothes i take off will be into the washer then drier and ironed and put away before 10 then she will look around to make sure she hasn't missed anything then off to the party.
And it is not just her. My mother was/is like that, my 1st wife was like that, all my mates wives are like that to certain degrees.
Maybe just a working class thing :smile:
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Dotty
Last time I went out at New years I ended up having a barney with some wingnut who objected to me copping off with a youngish lady he thought he had first dibs on.
Anyway both of us ended up in a police cell and best mates when we got there.
Missed new years though.
Best one was when I was 19. Me and and mate sprinting from one house party to another. I tripped, flew through the air and landed on my face. I took an eyebrow off and got the the second party with my face in a mask of blood, ended up in the bathroom with a lovely wee nurse who was at the party cleaning me up and dealing with my cut while I was running my hands up her legs and discovering, to my delight, her stocking tops. Much fun was had that night.
Anyway both of us ended up in a police cell and best mates when we got there.
Missed new years though.
Best one was when I was 19. Me and and mate sprinting from one house party to another. I tripped, flew through the air and landed on my face. I took an eyebrow off and got the the second party with my face in a mask of blood, ended up in the bathroom with a lovely wee nurse who was at the party cleaning me up and dealing with my cut while I was running my hands up her legs and discovering, to my delight, her stocking tops. Much fun was had that night.
Struggling to convince myself to go out, i'll have to spend money, see people i don't like, have to put up with idiots, be the second shortest guy.
at least here is free :devil2:
at least here is free :devil2:
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Rickster123
I'm up at mum and dads in Norfolk. Might slurp some sloe gin and then fall asleep long before midnight. I've always hated new year. Jules bleeding holland gets wheeled out every year. And this skint country suddenly finds a million quid to spend on fire crackers.
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IDCHAPPY
I have a 4 hour drive up north to spend a few days with the wife's family up north. My mum in law has a solid fuel stove which is wonderful 😀
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Dotty
I forgot to add. I'm not going out. I'm staying in with Mrs Croppie and I'll suffer a few of her new dvd's she hasn't been allowed to watch yet! Stepdaughter has been downstairs for the longest continuous period of time I've ever known insisting on watching some indeterminable crap that I've never heard of!
I stayed in the kitchen occasionally checking on here and watching Breaking Bad.
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fogarty
Goin into tarn tonight. We don't get out much these days. £10 to get in to place, 4 live bands, take your own food. Don't tell em but I'll be taking my own vodka as well. Did a favour for brother in law at weekend so he'll be picking us up so no robbing taxi firms to deal with. 😛arty:
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julesverne
got a few friends coming over will play cards , a few games of film and tv charades and music all good fun to see the new year in. and then once missus is in bed watch a few episodes of the walking. currently on episode 8 season 2. never watched it till old man bought me seasons 1 2 & 3 on blueray for chrimbo absolutely brilliant
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