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• Gramps49 Shipmate

  4:02AM

  Have not gotten that far yet. Think we might have some neighbors over.
• MaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus

  4:08AM

  Hogmanay? Wondering if I should make cranachan with raspberries, Scotch, honey, cream and oatmeal.
• LatchKeyKid Shipmate

  4:47AM

  We are flying home from Adelaide. The cheaper flights were New years eve and new year, and I decided not to chance the state of the passengers on the morning after New Year's Eve.
  A friend has a birthday on Jan 1, so we may go to annual beach vigil and go home at the turn of the year.
• Sojourner Shipmate

  5:11AM

  #2 daughter arrives from UK on the 30th and I return from Van Diemen’s Land on the 28th. Quiet night in with the cats methinks
• Cathscats Shipmate

  8:36AM

  Black Bun would be a more traditional offering in Scotland at New Year. But with you the rasps will be fruiting, so why not cranachan?
• Puzzler Shipmate

  8:55AM

  I’ve invited a friend round on NYE but we won’t be staying up to see the New Year in. I may ask a couple more friends who are now widowed.
  My granddaughter’s birthday is on New Year’s Day but she doesn’t want any fuss. I hope to see her at some point, but she is getting money into her account as her gift.
• Gill H Shipmate

  10:00AM

  We never do much. Watch the fireworks on TV and go to bed!
  Likely to have a nice meal though. Probably roast pheasant.
• Eigon Shipmate

  10:03AM

  I will be working on New Year's Eve, so I will be wearing my kilt with a plaid and big silver and (pretend) garnet brooch. Later in the evening I have some Balvenie whisky to sip.
• Heavenlyannie Shipmate

  10:10AM

  I haven’t gone out for New Year’s Eve for a few years, so will probably play a few strategy games and watch the fireworks before going to bed. I am assuming Master Heavenly the Elder will go out, if he is still around and not back in York.
  I’m hoping for a quiet New Year’s Day too as most of our visitors will have gone. I’m thinking something healthy for a change, perhaps a delicate meal of fish and vegetables with a citrus dressing. And a nice walk in the countryside.
  
• Heavenlyannie Shipmate

  11:52AM

  My food plans have already changed as our postman greeted us this morning with a couple of brace of pheasants! So our New Year meal will probably be a pot roast of pheasant, white wine, mushrooms and cream.
• la vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host

  12:25PM

  We are going to the New Year party at my in-laws' church. We went last year and it was quite fun, and given the part of the world where we are, excellently provisioned with food.
• Bishops Finger Shipmate

  2:13PM

  Nothing special. Same shit, different number.
  
• Nick Tamen Shipmate

  2:19PM

  MaryLouise wrote: »

  Hogmanay? Wondering if I should make cranachan with raspberries, Scotch, honey, cream and oatmeal.

  That sounds wonderful (and pace @Cathscats, more to my liking than Black Bun). We generally have fairly quiet NYEs. Some friends—not close friends, but friends—called yesterday to see if we could join them at a restaurant on NYE, so that’s the current plan.
  
  
  
• Celtic Knotweed Shipmate

  3:10PM

  In previous years one of my aunts has thrown a good Hogmanay do. Unfortunately she died this summer 😭, and her widower is still grieving (not a surprise, they'd been together about 50 years). So we'll probably have a night in with a dram of whisky. Might make cranachan if I find time to shop for raspberries (at work on 30th).
• Merry Vole Shipmate

  3:24PM

  Bishops Finger wrote: »

  Nothing special. Same shit, different number.
  

  
  Aww that's a shame. Wish I could come over to your Ark and crack open a few bottles...
• Bishops Finger Shipmate

  3:27PM

  Merry Vole wrote: »

  Bishops Finger wrote: »

  Nothing special. Same shit, different number.
  

  
  Aww that's a shame. Wish I could come over to your Ark and crack open a few bottles...

  
  Thanks! I will, I expect, indulge in a wee dram or three during the course of the evening...
• MaryLouise Shipmate, Host Emeritus

  4:12PM

  Cathscats wrote: »

  Black Bun would be a more traditional offering in Scotland at New Year. But with you the rasps will be fruiting, so why not cranachan?

  
  Yes, mid-summer here and I need to go lightly on the oatmeal. When I was a child in Zimbabwe, all the expat Scottish families would express nostalgic longing for Black Bun or haggis, neeps and tatties but then stick to salads and cold ham.
• TheOrganist Shipmate

  4:25PM

  Staying home. I think my partying-in the New Year days are gone.
• Graven Image Shipmate

  4:30PM

  My mobile home park is planning a New Year's Eve Bingo party. I do not care for the game, but I might go for the company. Staying home with a good book sounds more exciting at the moment. New Year's Day will have to include some greens and black-eyed peas.
• Nick Tamen Shipmate

  5:24PM

  Graven Image wrote: »

  New Year's Day will have to include some greens and black-eyed peas.

  Absolutely! And ham or some other form of pork.
  
  New Year’s Day is actually the only time all year I’ll voluntarily eat collards.
  
  
  
• Piglet All Saints Host, Circus Host

  5:59PM

  I'm going to my sister's, and like Mary Louise, the food may include cranachan (although I make it with Drambuie rather than whisky).
  
  A few of the family will be there too, and I'm staying over so it should be a nice relaxed, fun evening.
• NicoleMR Shipmate

  6:23PM

  Not sure yet what I'm doing, gotta' get that straightened out!
• Nick Tamen Shipmate

  6:38PM

  Piglet wrote: »

  I'm going to my sister's, and like Mary Louise, the food may include cranachan (although I make it with Drambuie rather than whisky).

  I typically give it a Southern (American) twist and make it with bourbon.
  
  
  
• Roseofsharon Shipmate

  10:50PM

  Nothing special on NY Eve. Will probably watch the New Year's Day concert from Vienna on the TV, if I remember.