Plans for New Years Eve?

[JtB]

Party at home with friends. Probably turn the Spanish TV station on for 5 minutes in time for the Spanish new year at 11:00pm and do the grapes thingy, then turn BBC on at midnight for 5 minutes in time for the Big Ben thingy.

 

[Soltydog]

Am I alone in working ? Luckily I'll only be at work till 10pm, home before 11, but I expect wife & kids will be in bed by then New years day I'm on night shift though, 7pm till 3am, hopefully it will be nice & quiet

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Option 1 , Sit at home , enjoy the company of my wife and go to bed at around 11am
Option 2 , Go to the local pub and have a slightly pleasant evening and sing and be jolly with a group of strangers come midnight
Option 3 , Go into town , watch drunks fall over and fight , dodge being bottled , maybe a stabbing or two and watch drunk women pulling hair and fighting with one hand whilst holding a kebab with the other over who gets the next taxi.

Think i will go with number 1

 

[rich p]

Option 1 , Sit at home , enjoy the company of my wife and go to bed at around 11am
Option 2 , Go to the local pub and have a slightly pleasant evening and sing and be jolly with a group of strangers come midnight
Option 3 , Go into town , watch drunks fall over and fight , dodge being bottled , maybe a stabbing or two and watch drunk women pulling hair and fighting with one hand whilst holding a kebab with the other over who gets the next taxi.

Think i will go with number 1

11am seems a little early to enjoy the bed and the wife but each to his own...

 

[brokenflipflop]

I'm going to stroke the dolphin as I run the rule over the sleek lines of my daz white......Audi Q7 4.2 DTI Quattro S Line.

I'm sure the fireworks with drown out my groans.

 

[trio25]

Don't think any of us can beat ColinJ for a funfilled New Year.

usually I am tucked up in bed but a couple of years ago we went wild camping in the snow in the hills, still asleep well before midnight though.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I'm going out for dinner and then drinks at the bar at the end of the road and should be tucked up in bed for around 1am. Last hogmanay was spent on the sofa in front of the telly and chatting shoot on facebook whilst my boyfriend was in the shower during the bells. Rock n roll.

 

[Blue]

I will be abiding by a tradition that has held for many a year in the Blue household; a round the world cruise.

Every year we buy two bottles of beer from as many different countries as possible. The bottles are then sorted by starting with the ones from the country that is farthest away and following a trail of countries, two bottles at a time, until we reach home. At this stage we are always, how shall I put it, pissed enough not to worry about any party going on outside.

As for 1st Jan., oh dear, it always hurts enough for me to swear not to do anything similar for at least a year.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I will be abiding by a tradition that has held for many a year in the Blue household; a round the world cruise.

Every year we buy two bottles of beer from as many different countries as possible. The bottles are then sorted by starting with the ones from the country that is farthest away and following a trail of countries, two bottles at a time, until we reach home. At this stage we are always, how shall I put it, pissed enough not to worry about any party going on outside.

As for 1st Jan., oh dear, it always hurts enough for me to swear not to do anything similar for at least a year.

This is the best plan ever. FACT!

 

[Damaged Hero]

Option 1 : Stay home and play some Xbox before going to bed about 11 ish
Option 2 : Go watch the mighty Coventry Blaze Ice Hockey team play the Cardiff Devils
Option 3 : See in the New Year in the Nude,Clover Spa my local Naturist Spa/Hotel is having a party to bring in the New Year.At least I don't have to worry about what to wear

Option 3 is winning at the moment,I am trying to persuade a friend of mine to give Naturisum a try for the first time and suggested the party would be a great time to give it a go.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Get so pissed out my head that I end up in a Police Cell.

Yes, I'm kidding!

 

[Ghost Donkey]

I had an epiphany on New Year's Eve when I was in my mid-20s. I'd been sitting in a Coventry pub watching the other drunks do 'the countdown' when I suddenly felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned and a rather intoxicated young woman attached herself to my face like some kind of brandy-and-Babycham-soaked limpet.

I remember asking myself whether this should be classified as a pleasant surprise or a nasty shock and while I was mulling over that, the countdown finally terminated with the usual raucous cacophony. She peeled herself off me and slumped in the chair opposite. "Happy New Year!" she slurred in a rather the-worse-for-wear Coventry accent. "Ditto" said I.

My mates had clocked what was going on and waved goodbye as they filed out of the pub to stagger off to another one of Coventry's award-winning nightspots. 'The Strange Woman' engaged me in a drunken conversation, the details of which are entirely lost to me up to the point where she started to complain about her ex. They had split up which is why she was alone on New Year's Eve and felt it necessary to pounce on me - fair enough - necessity is the mother of invention, and all that ...

I thought it only polite to ask her why she'd split up with her boyfriend. Apparently she'd been really upset when he sold the expensive leather coat that she'd bought him for his birthday. He'd run out of money to make his weekly purchase of heroin. (It's such a nuisance when that happens!)

Okay, her ex was a smackhead junkie - I could see that would make for a troubled relationship! "How did you get together in the first place?" "He asked me out after he'd raped me!" I must have misheard her reply ... "Pardon me?" " "He asked me out after he'd raped me!"

It took a few seconds for the enormity of that statement to percolate through my semi-pickled brain ...

"WTF!" I stared at her and she stared back at me with a deeply wounded look in her eyes. This was a pretty troubled young woman.

I probed further and it turned out that she'd been sitting upstairs on a bus one dark night with only smackhead junkie for company, a few seats back. When she got up to get off the bus, he'd followed her. She realised that he was following her and tried to get away, but he'd caught her, dragged her down an alleyway, threatened her, raped her, stole the money from her handbag ...

So far, so bad - I said that was terrible, but how the hell do you go from being raped and robbed by someone to buying them expensive leather coats?

He'd cried! He wasn't totally evil because he'd cried after he raped her. She felt sorry for him and gave him a little cuddle, and that's when he asked her out, and she'd felt really flattered and had said yes, and that was the start of a troubled 2-year relationship. Who would have thought it could possibly go wrong after such a promising start?

I felt deeply uneasy, and very sobered by all of this. The young woman clearly needed help and I wasn't up to the job so I decided to say goodbye and set off after my mates. She got upset when I got up to go and said that she'd hoped I would walk her home. She'd never be able to get a taxi on a night as busy as that and she had to walk through a rough neighbourhood.

Oh ... Quite clearly it was a rough place because she'd already been raped and robbed once before there. Trouble is, it was a couple of miles out of the city centre, the wrong way for me. I hesitated, then decided to do the decent thing - a 2 mile walk out with her, a 2 mile walk back, then a 2 mile walk the other way to get home.

We were not walking quickly. She had short legs and was not exactly walking in a straight line. It must have taken us nearly an hour and a half to get to her house.

She turned to me with a coy smile on her face and said "Listen, I don't have sex on a first date ..." (Huh?! ) "... but I'm free tomorrow night, so how about it?"

I muttered something about meeting my (non-existent) girlfriend, turned and fled!

And that, folks, is when I decided that I wasn't going to 'do' New Year's Eve any more!

Wow.

 

[Ghost Donkey]

Won't be doing much in the way of celebrating in the evening but a busy and hopefully enjoyale day planned. A cross country running race in the mnorning, taking the children to a birthday party in the afternoon and then probably to bed before midnight. A brief open water swim on new years day, which I plan to cycle to of course.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Won't be doing much in the way of celebrating in the evening but a busy and hopefully enjoyale day planned...

An "enjoyale" day sounds good!

 

[TVC]

Mrs VC has already asked if Arch is having a party again this year. We'll bring samosas.