What's everyone doing for hogmanay?

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In spite of having 'the world's biggest hogmanay street party' on my doorstep i'm spending it home alone and am contemplating an early night.

What about everyone else?

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

hogahoo?

― ron (ron), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

fuck all. probably staying home. by myself. thought a couple of friends might come over but doubtful now. sigh.

― masonicboom, Monday, 30 December 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to go out but I've had a gut full of alcohol this weekend so prob gonna stay in and play puter games.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Monday, 30 December 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

my house-owning friends are pussying out of having parties, so I'm going round a friend's place for dinner.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

sitting at home listening to recs.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Staying home I think.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 30 December 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm staying in!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Ye gods, what various kinds of wuss are you chaps? Am going out to a stinking indie pit (Strange Fruit upstairs at the Garage) to get drunk enough to attempt to blurrily justify more drinking and quite possibly ridiculous dancing.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm the coolest wuss ever!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Liz, you are cool.

sadly there are no indie discos on new years eve in Dublin.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

btw I am not cool. Heh heh. But I am off home now after wrestling with a sodding binding machine for far too long.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

If you think you're staying in, but then decide to go out, can you? I mean, do you have to buy tickets to clubs and pubs in advance? I ask this because even my local pub, which never has more than six customers at a time, is advertising tickets for hogmanay. I'm positive I'll be able to get in there without one of these tickets, but what about elsewhere?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 30 December 2002 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

you need a special pass to get into the centre of Edinburgh which were snapped up months ago but standing in princes st with thousands of drunk people is my idea of hell and in view of the supposed terrorist threat to this years proceedings i'll be in the best place.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 30 December 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to oban with my girl and some friends.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 30 December 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Not being Scottish, I don't plan to celebrate hogmanay (see non-Christian at Xmas thread). I plan to be with my oldest friends at that time, however.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

What is hogmanay (and can we eat it)?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Being conceptual, you cannot eat it. It is the word that Scots use for New Year's Eve, and has caught on widely.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

The Scots have a word for everything!

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. That word is "everything".

(Sorry.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Reveillon kicks Hogmanay right inot the ground

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

AWA' AN' BILE YER HEID, Mr Perry.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Staying home with Need For Speed 6 and possibly Burnout 2.Maybe some nasal refreshment to see in the New Year,complimented with some Jamaican Woodbines and washed down with Mango flavour Powerade.After which I will start my expedition to locate the half bottle of Smirnoff which is in the deep-freeze somewhere.....

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Monday, 30 December 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Going to a house party my mate Alice is throwing. Which is ace as she only lives down the road, so I won't have to spend my life savings on a cab/ sleep on a sofa in my clothes with no blanket and drunk people snoring around me.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 30 December 2002 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to a vaguely civilised gathering in Batt*rs*a early doors and then djing/dancing like a pillock with a bunch of Fonda 500 fans until 3am. After that I've got another party to go to in Highbury. It should be a good night.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Was going to a a party at my baby sis's but she's decided to go into the city centre instead - maniac. Will probably end up at local cheesy nightclub, again

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 02:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ideally I'd like an early night with a good book but the Dutch traditionally see the new year in with masses of fireworks so I'll be trying to comfort my terrified cat.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

hiding from stray bullets. just like any other night.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely bugger all. Staying in with mum. Keep her company.

― Shaz, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"Maybe some nasal refreshment to see in the New Year,complimented with some Jamaican Woodbines and washed down with Mango flavour Powerade."

LIKE, TOTALLY AWESOME, DUDE!!!

Not going to Strange Fruit any more, memory of Baxendale last year has caught up with me through the haze of cider. Civilised (hah!) gathering with lovely people instead. I may be getting old.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to a Disky Party.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmmmmm, disky...

(i'm bringing my GTA:VC box set too!!)

(and the bmg one with BOTH scatman singles on)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

NB I did not buy Wow That Was The 60s cos I suspect all the good ones are on your 'Nam set.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

ah, i do not have the vietnam set...

(yet)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

French 75s and Black Velvets

― the LESing it up crew (Mary), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 05:07 (twenty-three years ago)

It's actually perversing comforting to know that so many of you are staying in. Does this mean, staying in with the wife/husband/kids or just, staying in, staring at the wall/reading a book/watching TV/listening to music.

I'm in my 20s and have what I suspect is a fairly common experience--friends live all over this big world of ours, my having moved to different cities several times in the past few years means I find it increasingly hard to stay in touch with friends made in "easier times" (high school, college). I didn't want to go to a club with some folks as it was a kind of perverse pride that told me I would be invited to some house party or other but sadly that didn't happen. Instead of hanging around with a friend who is an incorrigible depressive (something that, this screed notwithstanding, I am not) I end up at home. I don't really have a "family" to speak of so that is not an alternative option.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? It's the first NYE I've spent alone. Can you reassure me that it's not the end of the world?

― Oh Dear, Wednesday, 1 January 2003 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant to write "perversely comforting."

― Oh Dear, Wednesday, 1 January 2003 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Why is it so easy to justify spending a weekend evening at home the rest of the time, and so hard to do so this particular night?

― Oh Dear, Wednesday, 1 January 2003 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't want you to be without a greeting from me when Christmas comes and when you, in the midst of the holiday, are bearing your solitude more heavily than usual. But when you notice that it is vast, you should be happy; for what (you should ask yourself) would a solitude be that was not vast; there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along, the most unworthy.... But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of spring. But that must not confuse you. What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude. Vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours. - that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child, when the grown-ups walked around involved with matters that seemed large and important because they looked so busy and because you didn't understand a thing about what they were doing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 3 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Hope that helps.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 3 January 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Hooray for New Year!

For the past few years christmas and new year have been non-events for me as I've been grieving loved ones who passed at this time three years in a row.

I've mourned enough! This year, instead of bemoaning Christmas like Ebeneezer Scrooge and working on New Years Day, I'm going to let my hair down and celebrate!

I really fancy Aviemore for Hogmanay - I've been told it's like a winter wonderland....

What yous all doing? Got your street party tickets? Planning a party at home? Anybody still go first-footing?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It's barely October!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Shortbread anyone? Piece of coal?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think someone invited me to a party in rural Dumfriesshire; but the last time they mentioned it was in May.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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