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Anyone else got that CBA feeling about tomorrow night?
I'll be going out, as the OH has a gig, but to be honest, given the choice I'd much prefer to stay in with a nice bottle of wine and my nice sofa.
The decision on what to do this year has been taken out of my hands.
Probably would have been a CBA, if I didn't have current issues.
I cannot be bothered to pay for a ticket to go into a pub, which seems to be the standard around here. We're off round to friends with our kids and about 10 other families for a knees up during the day. Then on NYD we'll have our annual bonfire and BBQ on the beach.
80's themed food night at our place, Toddler Kip hopefully fast asleep upstairs as we catch up with old friends and eat cheese fondue, steak frites with peppercorn sauce and finish with black forest gateaux!
Living the dream, boys, living the dream!!!
Working 🙄
Think we are staying in as well, really can't work up the enthusiasm for it for some reason.
chilling with the wife 😀
niether of us CBA
8-12 good friends and neighbours round at ours, everyone brings a plate. Should be nice and relaxed, but still doing new years.
Meh. Round to a mates for some plonk with him and his Mrs, wander round the beach at the bells and try for a few snogs, then see what the night brings*
It's best when it's low key and no pressure.
*98% chance of going back to mine, alone, as usual.
Definite can't be arsed here.
Would quite like to be watching the Big Fat Quiz of the Year, but that's rather annoyingly on now.
Will be having a curry with my wife, while warton junior is in bed.get up early and go for a run.
Trying to convince the wife that we should go for a short night ride onto the plain. Cba with the big party get drunk thing.
definite CBA here too. Mrs_D seems to want to make an evening of it, which will probably end up spent watching River Cottage all night. Really really CBA. I'd hit the sack around 9.30pm given the chance
Supposed to be meeting neighbours outside come midnight to pop some corks just going along because Mrs FH and kids want to, so filling my hip flask in readiness.
stay at home with the 7 1/2 month pregnant wife and eat some nice food and chat and stuff
nought else really
its enough
[i]Round to a mates for some plonk with him and his Mrs[/i]
Yeah, it's an awkward one - who do you ask, the mate or his wife?
Yeah, it's an awkward one - who do you ask, the mate or his wife?
Just turn the lights off and let nature take it's course.
With friends . Drinks eats games very bad music jam and chat
Cba rather go to bed and enjoy a good ride in the peaks with my other half on nyd
CBA as GF is working, so it'll just be me and the 2 dogs.
I also seem to have developed a very low tolerance of drunks and the 'once a year' crowd in pubs does my head in. Bah humbug 😡
[i]Just turn the lights off and let nature take it's course[/i]
How much wine for the courage to touch the light switch in another man's house?
CBA, however we are combining it with a housewarming and engagement party so it will be fun.
Going to be some climbing and lots of drinking involved.
may just take the bike a bivi bag and bottle of strong drink into the hills and bloody ignore people being dicks....I hate enforced jollity for the sake of tradition.
I'm going to swing some metal sticks at white balls for the first time in 1yr and 3 days at lunchtime then got six adults and 4 kids back at ours for beer/wine, pizza, midnight chilli, twister, music and hopefully a right good laugh! I'm 37, **** queuing up and paying to get in pretty average pubs!'
We'll be across at the neighbours celebrating with friends as usual. A few drinks will be consumed, some party food, some music - usual stuff. We'll chat about what we've been up to and what we're planning for 2013. It'll not be wild, rowdy or drunken but we'll have a good time.
What involves metal sticks and white balls?
Usually CBA, but this year we have friends coming to our new place. People we don't see very often and whose company I actually enjoy. Oh, and we've got lots of alcohol and drugs. Should be a laugh for once...
Looking forward to it - sorry!
Decided years ago that I didn't enjoy the 'standard' NYE celebration, so now a group of us get together for a 'bring and share' dinner and drinks, then about 10.30ish pull on lots of warm waterproof clothes and head off up our local mountain. Get to the top for about 11.30, snuggle down in the rocks and heather, pass round the mulled wine and champagne, and watch the fireworks going off across the sea and in the valleys.
Absolutely fantastic way to see in the New Year 🙂
On night shift
One thing's for sure, if anyone expects me to pay to go to see my own fiance, there's going to be trouble!
Hogmanay and I'm in scotland... but yeah still CBA.
I don't do Christmas, New Years or even my own birthday. They're all arbitrary dates.
Time with mates. Time with family. It's all ace.
But perhaps the best times are those that pre not pre-ordained.
I'll be spending tomorrow night with loved ones. But hat isn't because the year is at an end.
Don't want to get all existential on you - but life is what you make of if, not what society has prescribed.
pub early for a coupke. home for a nice meal, probably bed by 10. Alpin, guessing golf is he game with metal sticks and white balls.
At this precise moment i can't be arsed in the slightest if i'm being perfectly honest, got one invitation to a mates country house party which will involve drinking champagne, playing pool, midnight glow in the dark clay pigeon shoots, good music, lots of decent folk & good company, good c'hing/mdma, but a very-very late night/early morning type of finish so i would not see bed before 8am, already had a cracking boxing day party wi them and i felt ill for a day afterwards so i'm hesitant to go for New Year as with all good intentions i will succumb to kicking the arse out of it again and i do not wish to start my New Year feeling like that.
Another invite to a mates pub in my town (very nice pub) but that'll be mobbed wi drunk folk and it'll be jam packed so i'm not keen on that idea.
To be honest i kinda want to take off into the galloway hills for a midnight hill ride like i used to do a few years ago, ring in the new year on top of a hill wi a hip-flask and sit down for a few minutes as i let my head n' brain process what i want out of the coming year - trouble wi this plan is the fact that the weather forecast does not look promising and spending New Year 2000ft up a hill as it blows a freezing and windswept wet hoolie around me does not seem conducive to a Good New Year.......i dunno what i'm doing as usual?, if i had avoided kicking the arse out of it on Boxing day/night i'd be right up for the party but i'm unsure?, i'd like to think i could go and stay respectable but i know that is not an option, not when it's laid it in front of me anyway.
I'll guess i'll decide at the last minute as usual, i do know i'm going round to my folks for New Years day dinner so that may play a part in my decision making process.
Have a good one folks,
Cba so took the grenade - working day & night then next morning shift. Bargaining points for mid-week uplifts!
A massive CBA here.
Can't really see the point of the whole enforced joviality thing, it's just another day as far as I'm concerned!
CBA here too wife hates the (Auld Lang Syne song ) and the dog hates the fireworks .
even [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pm9s9 ]Jools lineup[/url] looks poor tonight, looks like I will be watching Jackie Bird and the proclaimers then!
CBA with pub/club & taxi combo costing a fortune, having a meal @ a friends & getting socially (not stupidly) drunk
meh, quiet night in after long dog walk... might have some take-away, might even break out mariokart on the wii... who knows, we are young and hell bent on causing mayhem.
Cannot be arsed..but have to play the game .Will be sat around with 6 other people who really CBA either. (family). I wonder how many smartphones will be getting clicked simutaniously while everyone sits in silence?
At some point everybody will link hands and fail to sing the words to "Auld lang syne" This bit really turns my stomach
I met someone once who has a partner with similar interests and they ride the Malverns on new years eve, I envy him
Ever since being in Sydney 4 years ago for NYE I CBA as nothing will top that in this country. So today ill be spending the day having fun with my brother, sis in law and her brother and sisters. Tonight I'll be staying in, have a couple of beers and watch Channel 4's House Party
Mrs FD working over night, just like she did at Christmas. I'll be home looking after Jnr FD, probably get an early night and get woken up at midnight by stupid fireworks.
Having said that if the weather continues as bad as it is, it might put people off using fireworks 🙂
Throat infection/cold has had me on the sofa for the past day or so. It's not horrendous, but it's been amusing watching the missus talk me into thinking I have the black plague to get us out of NYE activities.
Ever since being in Sydney 4 years ago for NYE I CBA as nothing will top that in this country.
Sydney knows how to put on a party. 11 years ago today I was stood under the bridge watching the fireworks.
It's ruined every firework party/NYE for me now
it might put people off using fireworks
Worryingly, I doubt it. Expect a lot of rockets suddenly changing trajectory by 90 degrees 8)
Another one working here.
[i]even Jools lineup looks poor tonight[/i]
It's nearly always bad on NYE, but that! What a shit lineup - bunch of utter hasbeens (and Emile-bloody-Sande). Nothing will make me put that on.
Hate it. Probably in bed with a good book well before 12 like last year, & a quick cuddle with the mrs to toast the bongs.
Much prefer a few hours together with family early in the evening.
Dragging the night on for the sake of seeing in midnight to the sound of cheap crap fireworks really isnt my thing since a certain someone decided to see in the millenium by opening my face with a pint glass. I still wince at 00:20.
For the first time in years I want to go out, a mate's band is playing at one of the best pubs in the city. Alas no babysitter.
Plus the weather looks like s@&£.
Been working since the 22nd on an emergency, CBA with any of it. On the plus side managed to get home for Christmas Day so I saw the kids.
Running a marathon starting at 5am tomorrow morning, so certainly won't be staying up late. TBH I can never be bothered doing owt in NYE anyway.
Cheers, Rich
The actual date, like all these things, means nothing. I do however enjoy an excuse to have a good time with mates whatever date it is.
Having said that, I don't have enough mates, so won't be doing anything. Wife's poorly, I'm knackered, kids are kids.. prob won't be staying up.
Hate it. Being dragged to my sister in laws. I've already said I'm driving which the wife isn't happy about. I'm now trying to engineer an argument to get out the thing entirely.
If it's not chucking it down, we're going to sit on top of Eccles Pike with a bottle of wine for the wife, a bottle of WKD for my daughter, a bottle of orange juice for me and water for the dog and stick two fingers each up to the arse end of 2012 and wave hello to 2013.
A year that we'd like to but sadly won't completely forget.
massive CBA here too, im working til 2230 which conveniently gets me out of going to any pubs or parties.
Have a houseful of people already who I'd rather not be spending time with but SWMBO has proclaimed the timetable :-/
So jackradio.com will be going on at 7pm for an 80's cheesefest and sod the whinging arses.....
If I'm getting divorced it'll be for a bloody good reason......
Struggling to find the motivation to go out , have a couple of offers of overpriced, over busy, over enthused pub events and just noticed weather forecast is sunny from 9am tomorrow so option 3 is looking favourable...sofa, beer, clearish head tomo morning = NYD ride 8)
I came up with the idea of a nice evening in, order a large full works curry, lots of beer/whiskey and some games etc but the Sister in law poo hooed it all and now it looks like I am having to go round town, in fancy dress in the rain 😥 Its gone 12, I have no costume and I have a huge dose of CBA!
Big do, chez nous last night - we are feeling jaded and CBA for tonight (apart from older son unsurprisingly).
Twenty mile XC run race a possibility tomorrow, so might take it easy tonight!!
Anyway, Happy New Year to all on STW!
Dear lord! You're miserable bunch of sods! 😉
I'm working all day today, so I'm looking forward to a nice evening with my beloved, some good mates, lots to drink, good food, good music and some Wii based drunken sillyness later
Its the start of a new year FFS. And I think its going to be a bloody good one. So there! 😛
binners, get off this thread. it's for people who [b]cannot[/b] be arse with it 😉
never bothered with it.
i like a pint at teatime on new years eve, then home before the loonies come out.
nice curry and some wine infront of the telly.
OOPS! Sorry!
* grabs silly string, party poppers, Shawoddywoddy CD's and champagne and wanders off for a sulk *
Currently at work - riding home in the rain later - maybe a cheeky half - then home for dinner + fizz - Herne Hill New years day madison cx race tomorrow - me commissairing and the SO racing so an early start.
Bah bollox. I hate NYE. CBA going to the local as its generally populated by nobbers, no doubt supplemented tonight by the port and lemon and half a mild, once-a-year pub botherers. And they charge a tenner in. Pah!
We'll be staying in with wine and snacks, probably watch a DVD and go to bed after the midnight demonstration of the double dip recession - i.e. £xty of bleedin' arsin' fireworks.
Tits.
Gonna go out for a few drinks in a couple of hours - no one seems that fussed so it'll be a few pints then back home for a curry - can't be arsed with people up in London and packed trains on the way home!
Starting work in a couple of hrs, should be home for 22:00. Then its a Chinese, drinks, either watch the coverage in London whilst playing on here or a film.
Back in work at 10:00 till 20:00 tomorrow 😥
Whatever your doing - Have a good night
Yeah I can't be arsed either, last time I went out on NYE was to Ali Pali for a big club night thing with Orbital,DJ Sasha etc about 13 years ago, it was shit, cold and overcrowded.
But tonight, as has become the tradition over the last 6 or 7 years we'll be with another couple, who are cooking some food, we'll drink some nice wine, smoke a couple of herbal cigarettes and play pool on their rather nice table, we might make it past midnight but certainly won't be watching the clock.
Primrose Hill for moi with a hot chick. 8)
Working.
Best one so far has to be Edinburgh for a proper street party, then back to a backpacking hostel to drink the next day through ending up doing Bundy and cokes with a couple of Aussie ladies,
This year is just like a regular Friday night out, drinks in our fave local dive bar with a good group of mates, then back to someone's to crash on their sofa talk crap and drink whiskey until the morning....
None of this dressing up and making an effort stuff, just out with good mates and having a laugh
We're taking part in a galloping gourmet which has gone from bad to worse. Originally there were supposed to be 14 people, visiting 5 houses, some of those would not be contributing, those who were hosting were paying for the food. Some of those not hosting would be paying for drinks. The last house (aim to be there for midnight) would be putting on fireworks) No planned start time until it was decided last night, although I've been asking for the last few weeks about various things with no answers (it's my other halfs mates doing the organising) So we're doing the cheese, naturally, and I got everything together over a week ago to make sure I had stuff properly matured and ready to eat. So mideweek last week, "fireworks" house dropped out now everyone is finishing up at ours. Then last night the bombshell was dropped that there's now only 8 of us and we're just going to 3 houses. My original suggestion that everyone puts in the same money and it's split evenly between the hosts was stepped on straight away, . I didn't even know half the people that were attending! Anyway hopefully it'll go ok, I'm just a bit pissed off with spending a small fortune on decent cheese and people crying off at the last minute. We still don't know what's happening with drinks at each others houses. Do we take some with us or not? Still no answers on that front either. 😕
Had two plans:
Anoch Mor hill race. KNee injury forced cancellation
London with GF. Splitting up caused cancellation
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I CBA really TBH. Didn't do anything the last couple of years and din't miss it. Aonoch Mor race is excellent though, did it a few years ago. It's new years day though so probably doesn't count.
Since we've had the kids (oldest 5) we've not been out. Quite happy with a couple of bottles of wine and some good cheese. I've always found it rather forced and paying to go in your local is just wrong.
I'm...........oh, I really can't be arsed.
Once spent NYE in a bedouin camp in Dahab , ended up sharing some rather dodgey Egyptian hooch with some Sudanese bedouin waiting for the sun to come up over the Gulf of Aquaba.
Very pleasant
Cheekyboy earlier.
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Always used to go up to Edinburgh with mates for Hogmanay, but stopped when it started to get a bit too corporate a few years back.
Tonight will be as it has been for the last few years - me, Zoe and the dogs with a takeaway and some booze. Bit of TV and see the new year in quietly together with Jools and some Laphroaig. Way more agreeable than risking the chavs in Cathedral Square and queuing up to pay to get into the shitholes that pass for city centre pubs round these parts (Charters and the Brewery Tap excepted).
Going to be starting my return flight home in 3 hours so will miss it all but to be honest I CBA.