NYE

[robjh]

Our club does a 'traditional' New Year's Day ride tomorrow, I look forward to that. Other than that, Mrs rjh and I will have a nice meal tonight and a good bottle of wine and stay up till midnight just 'cos we feel we should, then be in bed by 5 past.

 

[TVC]

We will stay up, eat chocolate and drink fizz.

Hoping for a nice long walk tomorrow morning.

 

[Joffey]

I'm off out for a few round Tadcaster with the bird and her mate. Will probably end up spangled on Sam Smiths bitter and regret it tomorrow when I'm meeting a mate for a pint to convince him Star Wars: The Force Awakens is tosh. Hoping for my first ride of the year on Sunday. Get some of them 2016 trophies haha

 

[MontyVeda]

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but I do believe that its healthy to celebrate a traditional event like this with people that you love...just like birthdays.

....

I don't like celebrating my birthday any more either... i've had loads of 'em! I like other people's birthdays though.

 

[jonny jeez]

Celebrations which tend to take place around a drinking establishment. I've been "sober" for nearly 7 years yet some of the company I once kept (even in cycling circles) didn't understand the importance of this. I was to "enjoy myself" and get pissed along with them,

Not happening

Good for you...but you can still go out and celebrate.

Not that its important but I don't drink either .

 

[Hitchington]

I used to love it, biggest night of the year going to a house party, staying up all night/morning/day, getting hammered...

For the past 5 years however I've stayed in, usually in bed by 10pm... ROCK AND ROLL!

 

[ColinJ]

I am in the unusual position of totally agreeing with TMN and totally disagreeing with nickyboy!

The only reason that I even 'do' Christmas is that it is one of the few times of year that my close family get together. That does not mean that I have to suffer NYE as well so I have legged it back to Yorkshire to avoid the NYE b@ll@cks and will be watching Netflix or a recorded film to make sure that I miss the stupid 'NY countdown' tonight. As usual, my sister will phone me about 10 seconds later, and as always, I will not answer the phone. She has not taken the hint in 30 years!

Even when I was a drinker, NYE was a ghastly time. I once got pounced on by a drunken young woman who proceeded to tell me the most miserable tale imaginable. There was no chance of her getting a taxi when we got kicked out of the pub. She lived in a pretty rough part of Coventry so I walked her 3/4 of her way home through the worst bit then turned to face a long stagger back to where I was living at the time.

My family have been giving me grief about my upcoming 60th birthday. They wanted to throw a big party but I totally vetoed it. They know that I don't like 'fuss' so it says to me that they are looking for excuses to eat too much and get p@ssed, rather than actually thinking about what I want! If they had listened to what I was saying, they would have heard me say that I was hoping to be on my bike in Spain at that time ...

If you would like a laugh with me, it will be sober on a forum bike ride during the day, not p@ssed up in a pub at night, and especially not on NYE ...

Signed, A miserable, boring, teetotal fecker!

 

[Bollo]

Me and Mrs Dr B are in Eindhoven in the Netherlands to visit friends for new year. Already we can hear some of the ordnance bought in from Belgium and Poland being tested in the local woods, despite a ban on fireworks until 10pm.

We're just off to the supermarket to stock up on reasonably priced yet highly alcoholic dizzy waters.

 

[jonny jeez]

I used to love it, biggest night of the year going to a house party, staying up all night/morning/day, getting hammered...

For the past 5 years however I've stayed in, usually in bed by 10pm... ROCK AND ROLL!

Age...or perhaps experience has a lot to do with it.

Its unreasonable to expect us to have a "Disney perfect" party every single year...especially if we have had many of them un the past. They cant all be the "best" and as we get older, it gets easier to simply ignore an opportunity for celebration or even make excuses not to engage.

To me, that's a little like ignoring life itself...what's the point in just existing...especially if you still have loved ones about.

But you don't need to get plastered, to enjoy celebrating a traditional time of the year with friends, you just need two things.

Friends and the inclination.

 

[vernon]

Is anyone bothered ?

Lol..

It's only a day change..

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 366 page book. Write a good one.

 

[rich p]

I shall be cooking a giant fish pie for us and 3 other couples, after which we shall repair to the local for a few pints and to talkj bollix.

 

[jayonabike]

As soon as I can dump this Lorry and all its mail off (around 3ish) I'll get home and start preparing dinner for me and the Mrs tonight. A few glasses of wine, a cocktail or two and a few whiskys, bit of jools on the telly and bed around 1ish.

 

[jonny jeez]

I am in the unusual position of totally agreeing with TMN and totally disagreeing with nickyboy!

The only reason that I even 'do' Christmas is that it is one of the few times of year that my close family get together. That does not mean that I have to suffer NYE as well so I have legged it back to Yorkshire to avoid the NYE b@ll@cks and will be watching Netflix or a recorded film to make sure that I miss the stupid 'NY countdown' tonight. As usual, my sister will phone me about 10 seconds later, and as always, I will not answer the phone. She has not taken the hint in 30 years!

Even when I was a drinker, NYE was a ghastly time. I once got pounced on by a drunken young woman who proceeded to tell me the most miserable tale imaginable. There was no chance of her getting a taxi when we got kicked out of the pub. She lived in a pretty rough part of Coventry so I walked her 3/4 of her way home through the worst bit then turned to face a long stagger back to where I was living at the time.

My family have been giving me grief about my upcoming 60th birthday. They wanted to throw a big party but I totally vetoed it. They know that I don't like 'fuss' so it says to me that they are looking for excuses to eat too much and get p@ssed, rather than actually thinking about what I want! If they had listened to what I was saying, they would have heard me say that I was hoping to be on my bike in Spain at that time ...

If you would like a laugh with me, it will be sober on a forum bike ride during the day, not p@ssed up in a pub at night, and especially not on NYE ...

Signed, A miserable, boring, teetotal fecker!

Sorry Colin but it seems to me that you need to take control or else you will soon become that same miserable, boring fecker that you mock.

From what I know of you , its clear you have huge drive and determination...and more than the average zest for life.

If you want to celebrate your 60th on a bike in Spain...then what in gods green earth is stopping you.

Get your arse on the computer right now and type up the invites, send them out tomorrow. Include links for those in your family and circle of friends who don't cycle to find cycle hire firms and tell them where to meet...sounds.like a fantastic 60th celebration to me...can I come!

Please don't allow family to dictate how you should celebrate, your own life.

Ps when I rode lejog a bonkers Pastor from the highlands and an ex mtb champ from Derbyshire joined us to celebrate their 60th year...awesome fellas and now lifelong friends.

Sorry for the patronizing tone...tough love fella.

Pps..pick up that phone, one day it will stop ringing.

 

[vernon]

I shall be cooking a giant fish pie for us and 3 other couples, after which we shall repair to the local for a few pints and to talkj bollix.

Way to go rich p!

 

[Levo-Lon]

My attitude to NYE was coloured by a woman friend who used to throw a ghastly party every year and cook a vat of horrible chili for the festivities. All her amdram/operatic friends would crowd along and the chimes of midnight would mark the start of compulsory exchange of "Mwah, mwah, Happy New Year" to every single person in the house, no kidding. It was excruciating and impossible to get out of - she just would not take no for an answer when inviting people, as if non attendance passed some judgement on one's character or prospects, as you say. I had to move away in the end .

That would be a nightmare for me too lol..